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Biernat of Lublin (
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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
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, Renaissance, and religiously liberal opinions."''Biernat z Lublina''" ("Biernat of Lublin"), ''
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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 by
Florian 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,
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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"), ''
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'' (Encyclopedia of Poland), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Ryszard Kluszczyński, 1996, , p. 57. Polish poets Medieval Polish physicians 16th-century Polish physicians Polish medical writers Polish translators Fabulists 1460s births 16th-century deaths Year of birth uncertain Polish male poets {{poland-med-bio-stub