Franciszek Henryk Siła-Nowicki (29 January 1864, in

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– 3 September 1935, in Zawoja,

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) was a

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, a

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socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...

activist, and designer of the ''

Orla Perć Orla Perć (English: ''Eagle's Path'') is a tourist path in the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland. It is considered one of most difficult and dangerous public paths in the entire Tatras (an equivalent to Grade 2 Scramble) and is therefore a su ...

'' (Eagle's Path) High

Tatras The Tatra Mountains (), Tatras, or Tatra (''Tatry'' either in Slovak () or in Polish () - ''plurale tantum''), are a series of mountains within the Western Carpathians that form a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. They are the high ...

mountain trail.

Life

Franciszek Nowicki was the son of

Maksymilian Nowicki Maksymilian Siła-Nowicki (9 October 1826 – 30 October 1890) was a Polish zoology professor and pioneer conservationist in Austrian Poland, and father of the poet Franciszek Nowicki. He was brother-in-law to Kraków University law professor ...

— a

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and pioneer Polish conservationist — and

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, sister of

Franciszek Kasparek Franciszek Ksawery Kasparek ( Sambor, 29 October 1844 – 4 August 1903, Kraków) was a Polish jurist, professor of law and rector of Kraków University, founder of the first chair in international law in Poland (at Kraków University), and member ...

, professor of

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of Kraków University, and founder of the first chair in

in Poland. As a university student, Nowicki co-edited (with

Kazimierz Tetmajer Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (12 February 1865 – 18 January 1940) was a Polish Goral poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement. Life Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was born in Ludźmierz in Po ...

, Andrzej Niemojewski,

Artur Górski Artur Cezary Górski (30 January 1970 – 1 April 2016) was a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 2850 votes in 19 Warsaw district, running on the Law and Justice ticket. He was reelected in 2007 and was in ...

and others) a

-leaning

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, '' Ognisko'' (Focus). Some years later, he co-founded the Polish Socialist-Democratic Party (''

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''). From 1894 he taught at a secondary school ('' gimnazjum''). On February 5, 1901, Nowicki proposed to '' Towarzystwo Tatrzańskie'' (the Tatras Society) the building of ''

'' (the Eagle's Trail), which was partly realized in 1903-07. In 1902 he climbed to the then-as-yet-unnamed '' Przełęcz Nowickiego'' (Nowicki's Pass) in the '' Buczynowe Turnie''

peaks. In 1924 Nowicki retired from teaching, and in 1934 he became an honorary member of the Polish Writers' Union ('' Związek Zawodowy Literatów Polskich'').

Writings

Nowicki published

poem Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in ...

s and stories and, in 1891, his sole little volume of ''Poems'' (''Poezje''), comprising two parts: "The Tatras" ("''Tatry''") and "Songs of Time" ("''Pieśni czasu''"). He also

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d from

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, e.g.,

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as tr ...

's idyll of ''

Hermann and Dorothea ''Hermann and Dorothea'' is an epic poem, an idyll, written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797, and was to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss's ''Luise'', an idyll in hexameters, which was first published i ...

''. He ceased writing poetry following an unhappy romantic involvement.

References

* ''Mała encyklopedia powszechna PWN'' (Small PWN Universal Encyclopedia), Warsaw,

Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (''Polish Scientific Publishers PWN''; until 1991 ''Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe'' - ''National Scientific Publishers PWN'', PWN) is a Polish book publisher, founded in 1951, when it split from the Wydawnictwa Szkolne i P ...

, 1959, p. 633.

External links

"''Poeta Tatr''" ("Poet of the Tatras"), an article about Franciszek Nowicki in the magazine, ''Pod Diablakiem''.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nowicki, Franciszek 1864 births 1935 deaths Polish poets Polish socialists Polish translators German–Polish translators Polish male poets Polish mountain climbers Writers from Kraków Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life

Writings

See also

References

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