Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński

Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński (1819-1879), born in Polwica, in Greater Poland, studied in Wrocław and then in Berlin, where he read Hegel and Feuerbach, collected the songs and tales of his region and was the most radical of the poets of his generation, calling for a peasant revolution. Arrested for having spread in Galicia the idea of an uprising and of the abolition of forced labour, he spent two years in prison, fought in Kraków in 1848, sat in 1852-1854 in the Prussian Landtag, then served in an Ottoman dragoon regiment. He died in poverty in Constantinople in 1879.

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• PoetryDon Juan PoznańskiRyszard Wincenty Berwiński · 1844not translated into EnglishLiterature