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Kornel Ujejski (; September 12, 1823 in Beremyany, Galicia,
Dr Marek Adamiec: Kornel Ujejski
* Melnyk, I.
The most famous Polish poet of Galicia (Найвідоміший польський поет Галичини)
Zbruč. 11 September 2013 1823 births 1897 deaths People from Ternopil Oblast Polish poets Polish political writers 19th-century Polish poets 19th-century Polish male writers {{Poland-poet-stub
Kornel Ujejski (; September 12, 1823 in Beremyany, Galicia, Austria
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- September 19, 1897 in Pavliv near Lviv
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, Galicia, Austria
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), also known as Cornelius Ujejski, was a Polish poet, patriot and political writer of the Austrian Empire
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and Austria-Hungary
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.
He was named "last of the greatest Polish poets of Romanticism
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Kornel was born in a village on Dniester
The Dniester, ; rus, Дне́стр, links=1, Dnéstr, ˈdⁿʲestr; ro, Nistru; grc, Τύρᾱς, Tyrās, ; la, Tyrās, la, Danaster, label=none, ) ( ,) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and th ...
between Buchach
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and Tlumach
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. Ujejski was involved in Poland's struggle for independence after it had been partitioned and erased from the map of Europe by neighbouring countries (Russian Empire
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, Prussia
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and Austrian Empire
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). In 1846, at the instigation of the Austrian Government during the Kraków Uprising
The Kraków uprising (Polish: ''powstanie krakowskie'', ''rewolucja krakowska''; German: ''Krakauer Aufstand''; Russian: ''краковское восстание'') of 1846 was an attempt, led by Polish insurgents such as Jan Tyssowski and Edw ...
, the Galician peasants massacred several thousand of the nobility. Ujejski then gave utterance to the universal feeling of indignation in his powerful poem ''Choral'', which has become one of the notable patriotic Polish songs of that period.
The political situation in partitioned Poland was reflected in his poems and political writing. His writing conveyed patriotic and historic message and was meant to support the Polish people in their fight for independence.
Works
* ''Maraton'' (''Marathon'', 1845) * ''Pieśni Salomona'' (''The Songs of Solomon'', 1846) * ''Skargi Jeremiego'' (''The Complaints of Jeremy'', 1847) * ''Do Moskali'' (''To the Muscovites'', 1862) * ''Tłumaczenia Szopena'' (''Translations of Chopin'', 1866)See also
*Polish literature
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* List of Polish language poets
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There have been five Polish-language Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Prize laureates in literature: ...
* History of Poland
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External links
Dr Marek Adamiec: Kornel Ujejski
* Melnyk, I.
The most famous Polish poet of Galicia (Найвідоміший польський поет Галичини)
Zbruč. 11 September 2013 1823 births 1897 deaths People from Ternopil Oblast Polish poets Polish political writers 19th-century Polish poets 19th-century Polish male writers {{Poland-poet-stub