Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (4 October 1750,

Vitebsk Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest ci ...

– 25 August 1807,

Końskowola Końskowola is a village in southeastern Poland (historic Lesser Poland region), located between Puławy and Lublin, near Kurów on the Kurówka River. It is the seat of a separate commune ('' gmina'') within Puławy County in Lublin Voivodeshi ...

) is considered to be one of the most distinguished

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poets of the Polish sentimentalism in the Enlightenment period. Francišak Kniaźnin

He was a member of the Jesuit order since 1764, and after its

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—a secretary of prince

Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1 December 1734 – 19 March 1823) was an influential List of Polish people, Polish szlachcic, aristocrat, writer, literary and theater critic, linguist, traveller and statesman. He was a great patron of arts an ...

and teacher of his children. He was one of the first collectors of Belarusian folklore. His poem in Belarusian "Krosenki" ("Кросенкі") was sung by Belarusian farmers as a folk song.(Што адбывалася ў Беларусі і ў сьвеце 3 і 4 кастрычніка, Радыё Свабода, 4 кастрычніка 2004.)(in Belarusian)
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1750 births 1807 deaths Writers from Vitebsk 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian poets 18th-century Polish Jesuits {{Poland-poet-stub