Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Born 28 July 1812(1812-07-28)
Died 19 March 1887(1887-03-19) (aged 74)
Occupation Novelist
Language Polish
Nationality Polish
Period 19th century
Notable work(s) Stara Baśń (An Ancient Tale, 1876);
Chata za wsią (The Hut Outside the Village, 1854)

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (Warsaw, 28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887, Geneva) was a Polish writer, historian and journalist who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews (including painters, e.g., Michał Kulesza.[1]) He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-nine novels in seventy-nine parts.

As a novelist writing about Polish history, Kraszewski is generally regarded as second only to Henryk Sienkiewicz.

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Life

Kraszewski was born in Warsaw and brought up in Romanów, Gmina Sosnówka, by his grandmother.[2]

He attended schools in Biała Podlaska (1822–26), Lublin (1826–27) and Świsłocz (1827–29).[3]

After 1829 he studied medicine and literature. From 1859 he was an editor at Gazeta Warszawska (The Warsaw Gazette) and in 1870 an editor at Tydzień (The Week).[4]

In 1883 he was arrested in Berlin, charged with collaborating with French military intelligence, and sentenced to three and a half years of imprisonment at Magdeburg Fortress.[5]

He died at Geneva in 1886.[6]

Adaptation

In 2003 the first book in the series, Stara Baśń (An Ancient Tale, 1876), was made into a feature film by Jerzy Hoffman.

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