Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), born in Zaosie or in Nowogródek, of the poor nobility, studied at the University of Vilnius and founded there, with friends, a secret society of students. Arrested in 1823 and exiled to central Russia in 1824, he became friends there with Pushkin, left the Empire in 1829 and lived in emigration, in Rome and then in Paris, where he taught Slavic literatures at the Collège de France from 1840. Suspended in 1844 for having preached the mystical doctrine of Andrzej Towiański, he edited a radical newspaper in 1849. He died in Constantinople in 1855, probably of cholera, where he was helping to form Polish troops.

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• PoetryPan TadeuszPan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na LitwieAdam Mickiewicz · 1834Literature