Franciszek Ksawery Matejko ( cs, František Xaver Matějka) (1789 or 13 January 1793 in

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– 26 October 1860 in

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) was a

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musician, father of Polish painter

Jan Matejko Jan Alojzy Matejko (; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Poles, Polish painting, painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works includ ...

. He was probably the son of farmer Josef Matějka and

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woman Magdalena Knava from

, then in

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, but other sources gave him other parents:

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František Josef Matějka and Mariana Dolanská. After his mother's death he lived in

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with his uncle

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Urbánek. He learned music in

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. After that he went to

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and became a music teacher. On 22 November 1826 he married Joanna Karolina Rossberg, daughter of

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Jan Piotr Rossberg and his wife Anna Marianna Tusz. Franciszek and his wife had eleven children: *Franciszek Edward *Edmund Marcin *Zygmunt Hilary *Emilia Łucja *Alojzy (Adolf) Franciszek *Józef Eustachy *Karol Franciszek * Maria Waleria * Jan Alojzy *Kazimierz Wilhelm *Bolesław Wilhelm.

Sources

*Maria Szypowska ''Jan Matejko wszystkim znany'', Dom Słowa Polskiego, Warszawa 1988 1793 births 1860 deaths Czech musicians Polish musicians

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