Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin

Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (c. 1750-1807), born in Vitebsk, entered the Society of Jesus, where he studied and then taught. After the suppression of the order in 1773, he returned to lay life, became secretary to Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and tutor to his children, and lived in the Czartoryski circle at Puławy, for whose court theatre he wrote plays. He was one of the first to collect Belarusian folklore and translated Horace, Anacreon and Ossian. Struck by mental illness in the mid-1790s, he died at Końskowola in 1807.

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• PoetryErotykiFranciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin · 1779not translated into EnglishLiterature