Seweryn Goszczyński (4 November 1801,
Illintsi – 25 February 1876,
Lviv
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) was a
Polish Romantic prose writer and poet.
Life
He was born on 4 November 1801 in
Ilińce,
Russian Empire
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and hailed from a Polish
noble family
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of the
Pobóg coat of arms. He died in 1876 and was buried in the
Łyczaków Cemetery in
Lwów.
See also
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Romanticism in Poland
References
Virtual Library of Polish Literature
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Polish male writers
November Uprising participants
Writers from the Russian Empire
Emigrants from the Russian Empire
Immigrants to the Austrian Empire
Immigrants to France
1801 births
1876 deaths