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: ''Biernat z Lublina'', Latin ''Bernardus Lublinius'', ca. 1465 – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator, and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones. He expressed plebeian
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Etymology
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, Renaissance, and religiously liberal opinions."''Biernat z Lublina''" ("Biernat of Lublin"), ''Encyklopedia Polski
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'' (Encyclopedia of Poland), p. 57.
Life
Biernat wrote the first book printed in the Polish language: printed in 1513, in Kraków, at Poland's first printing establishment, operated byFlorian Ungler
Florian Ungler (died 1536 in Kraków) and Kasper Hochfeder were printers from Bavaria that after 1510 became pioneers of printing and publishing in the Polish language.
*1512 ''Introductio in Ptolomei Cosmographiam'', with maps of America
*1513 ...
—a prayer-book, ''Raj duszny'' (''Hortulus Animae
''Hortulus Animae'' ( en, Little Garden of the Soul, german: Seelengärtlein, french: Jardin des Âmes, pl, Raj duszny) was the Latin title of a prayer book also available in German. It was very popular in the early sixteenth century, printed in ...
'', Eden of the Soul).
Biernat also penned the first secular work in Polish literature: a collection of verse fables, plebeian
In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words " commoners". Both classes were hereditary.
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and anticlerical in nature: ''Żywot Ezopa Fryga'' (The Life of Aesop the Phrygian), 1522.
Works
*''Raj duszny'' (Eden of the Soul), 1513 *''Żywot Ezopa Fryga'' (The Life of Aesop the Phrygian), 1522 *''Dialog Polinura z Charonem'' (Dialog of Polinur and Charon)See also
* Physician writer * Fable#Fabulists *''Fables and Parables
''Fables and Parables'' (''Bajki i przypowieści'', 1779), by Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), is a work in a long international tradition of fable-writing that reaches back to antiquity. Krasicki's fables and parables have been described as being ...
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References
*"''Biernat z Lublina''" ("Biernat of Lublin"), ''Encyklopedia Polski
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* '' Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary'' ( sq, Fjalori Enciklopedik Shqiptar): published by Academy of Sciences of Albania;
** First Edition (1985; ''FESH'') ...
'' (Encyclopedia of Poland), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Ryszard Kluszczyński, 1996, , p. 57.
Polish poets
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16th-century Polish physicians
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1460s births
16th-century deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Polish male poets
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