HENRYK See also:

• HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ (1846– )

SIENKIEWICZ (1846– )  , See also:

• POLISH

Polish novelist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1846 at Wola Okrzeska near Lukow, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• SIEDLCE
• SIEDLCE (Russian Syedlets)

Siedlce, See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

• POLAND (Polish Polska, Ger. Polen), (see POLAND, RUSSIAN, below)
• POLAND, RUSSIAN

Poland . He studied See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy at See also:

• WARSAW
• WARSAW (Polish Warszawa, Ger. Warschau, Fr. Varsovie)

Warsaw University . His first See also:

• WORK

work, a humorous novel entitled A See also:

• PROPHET (Irpo4i ri7s)

Prophet in his own See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country, appeared in 1872 . In 1876 See also:

• SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK (1846– )

Sienkiewicz visited See also:

• AMERICA

America, and under the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of " Litwos, " contributed an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his travels to the Gazeta Polska, a Warsaw newspaper . Thenceforward his See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent as a writer of See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical novels won rapid recognition, and his best-known See also:

• ROMANCE

romance, Quo Vadis? a study of See also:

• ROMAN

Roman society under See also:

• NERO (37-68)

Nero, has been translated into more than See also:

• THIRTY

thirty See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . Originally published in 1895, Quo Vadis? was first translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English in 1896, and dramatized versions of it have been produced in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, the See also:

• UNITED

United States, See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany . Remarkable See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of realistic description, and a strong religious feeling which at times See also:

• BORDERS, THE

borders upon See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

mysticism, characterize the best work of Sienkiewicz . Hardly inferior to Quo Vadis? in popularity, and See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior in See also:

• LITERARY

literary merit, is the trilogy of novels describing 17th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century society in Poland during the See also:

• WARS

wars with the See also:

• COSSACKS (Russ. Kazak; plural, Kazaki, from the Turki quzzaq, " adventurer, free-hooter ")

Cossacks, See also:

• TURKS

Turks and Swedes . This trilogy comprises Ogniem i mieczem (" With See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

Fire and See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

Sword, " See also:

• LONDON

London, 1890, 1892 and 1895), Potop (" The See also:

• DELUGE, THE (through the Fr. from Lat. diluvium, flood, diluere, to wash away)

Deluge," See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

Mass., 1891) and See also:

• PAN (" pasturer ")
• PAN (common in various forms to many Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Pfanne; it is generally taken to be an early adaptation in a shortened form of Lat. patina, shallow bowl or dish, from patere, to lie open)

Pan Woxodjowski (" Pan See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

Michael," London, 1893) . Among other very successful novels and collections of tales which have been translated into English are Bez Dogmatu (" Without See also:

• DOGMA (Gr. Sbypa, from b6aeiv, to seem; literally " that which seems, sc. good or true or useful " to any one)

Dogma, " London, 1893; See also:

• TORONTO

Toronto, 1899), Janko muzykant: nowele (" Yanko the Musician and other Stories," Boston, Mass., 1893), Krzyzacy (" The See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

Knight of the See also:

• CROSS

Cross, " numerous See also:

• BRITISH

British and See also:

• AMERICAN

American versions), Hania (" Hania, " London, 1897) and Ta Trzecia (" The Third Woman," New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, 1898) . Sienkiewicz lived much in See also:

• CRACOW (Pol. Krakov; Ger. Krakau)

Cracow and Warsaw, and for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time edited the Warsaw newspaper Slowo; he also travelled in England, France, See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, See also:

• GREECE

Greece, See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa and the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East, and published a description of his journeys in Africa . In 1905 he received the See also:

• NOBEL, ALFRED BERNHARD (1833-1896)

Nobel See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize for literature .

A See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German edition of his collected See also:

• WORKS

works was published at See also:

• GRAZ [GRATZ]

Graz (1906, &c.), and his See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography was written in Polish by P . Chmielowski (See also:

• LEMBERG (Pol. Lwdw, Lat. Leopolis)

Lemberg, 1901) and J . Nowinski (Warsaw, 1901) .