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Adam Szymański
Adam Szymański (15 July 1852 – 6 April 1916) was a Polish writer and lawyer, remembered for his ''Siberian Sketches'', detailed depictions of the life of Poles in exile. Pieces translated into English include "Srul from Lubartów", "A Pinch of Salt", and "Maciej the Mazur". Life He was born in Hruszniew. During the years 1872–1877, he attended high school in Siedlce. He studied law at the University of Warsaw in 1877. For his involvement with Adam Stanisław Sapieha's "National Government" of 1877, and for helping Jan Ludwik Popławski to found the "Sons of the Fatherland", a socialist group presented as a patriotic version of Ludwik Waryński's network, he was imprisoned in the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel in the years 1878–1879. He was exiled to Siberia, where he conducted geographical studies and ethnographic research into the Yakuts. At first he lived in Yakutsk and, from 1882, in Kirensk and Balagansk. After 1885, he was able to move to the European part of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Szymanski
Adam is the name given in Book of Genesis, Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This action introduced death and sin into the world. This sinful nature infected all his descendants, and led humanity to be expelled from the Garden. Only through the crucifixion of Jesus, humanity can be redeemed. In Islam, Adam is considered ''Khalifa'' (خليفة) (successor) on earth. This is understood to mean either that he is God's deputy, the initiation of a new cycle of sentient life on earth, or both. Similar to the Biblical account, the Quran has Adam placed in a garden where he sins by taking from the Tree of life (Quran), Tree of Immortality, so loses his abode in the garden. When Adam repents from his sin, he is forgiven by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
