Adam Mickiewicz

Here's a info about Adam Mickiewicz

• Born on December 24, 1798 in Zaosie near Nowogródek (now Belarus).
• Father, Mikołaj Mickiewicz, was a lawyer; mother, Barbara from the Majewski family.
• 1807-1815: attended a gymnasium in Nowogródek.
• 1815-1819: studied at Vilnius University, where he obtained a master's degree in philosophy.
• Co-founder of the Philomath Society (1817) and the Filaret Association.
• Arrested by Tsarist authorities in 1823 for patriotic activities.
• 1824: sentenced to exile in the interior of Russia, stayed in St. Petersburg, Odessa, and Moscow, among other places.
• 1826: published "Crimean Sonnets" and "Konrad Wallenrod" (1828).
• 1829-1830: traveled across Europe, visiting Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.
• 1832: settled in Paris.
• 1832: published "Dziady Part III".
• 1834: publication of "Pan Tadeusz".
• 1848: organized a Polish legion in Italy during the Revolutions of 1848.
• 1839-1840: gave lectures in Lausanne.
• 1840-1844: professor of Slavic literature at Collège de France.
• 1834: married Celina Szymanowska, with whom he had six children.
• 1855: traveled to Constantinople to organize aid for Polish emigrants fighting in the Crimean War.
• Died on November 26, 1855, in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey).
• Initially buried in Montmorency near Paris.
• In 1890, his remains were transferred to Wawel in Krakow.

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