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Adolf Dygasiński

Died in 1902

Adolf Dygasiński (1839-1902), born in Niegosławice, near Pińczów, the son of an estate steward without means, studied linguistics, natural sciences and geography at the Main School in Warsaw, took part in the 1863 uprising and was imprisoned twice. A tutor in landowners' households, where his pupil was the future painter Jacek Malczewski, he founded an educational institute in Kraków, worked as a bookseller and publisher, then wrote for the Warsaw press. Sent to Brazil in 1890-1891 in the footsteps of Polish emigrants, he died in Grodzisk Mazowiecki in 1902.

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