Juliusz Słowacki

Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849), born in Krzemieniec, the son of Euzebiusz Słowacki, professor of literature at the town's lycée and then at the University of Vilnius, studied law in Vilnius and in 1829 joined the Treasury Commission in Warsaw. During the uprising, the diplomatic bureau of the insurgent government sent him to Dresden, Paris and London; he never returned. He lived in Geneva, travelled in Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land, then settled in Paris, where he died of tuberculosis on 3 April 1849. His remains were placed in Wawel Cathedral in 1927.

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• TheatreKordianJuliusz Słowacki · 1899LiteraturePublic domain