Weronika Sekuła 2b - Famous Polish people

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz –

born December 24, 1798 in Zaosiu. Polish poet, activist

and political journalist. Considered the greatest

Polish writer, one of the so-called. "wieszczów". He

died November 26, 1855, in Constantinople.

Karol Józef Wojtyła born on May 18, 1920, in

Wadowice, died April 2, 2005 in Vatican City-Cardinal,

Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Polish Krakow, Cardinal, Pope on October 16, 1978 – April 2, 2005, the venerable servant of God Catholic Church, Knight of the order of the White Eagle.

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin was born. February 22 or March

1, 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, d. on October 17, 1849 in Paris- Polish

composer and pianist. A representative of the music of

the period of romanticism. Known as the poet of the

piano.On the sources of his work was motivated by artistic

sensitivity and ability to draw patterns with Polish folk music.

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 was born on August 20,1847 in Hrubieszów His real name is Aleksander Głowacki .

Poet, novelist, journalist. His first novel was ”the facility". Writing a noveltransformation in 1912 in Warsaw, died.

Bolesław Prus

Wisława Szymborska (ur. 1923-2012)

Was a great poet and literary critic , who won the Nobel prize

and was awarded the order of the white eagle. Relesed tom poetic and publish feature articles.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz was born May 5, 1846r. in the will

Okrzejskiej in Podlasie, died 15 November 1916r. The writer's greatest achievement was to

obtain 1905r. The Nobel Prize for his novel Quo Vadis.

Mikołaj Kopernik (1473-1543)

a prominent astronomer, mathematician, physician,

lawyer, Economist. He was born in Toruń, Poland. He studied in Kraków, then in Bologna, Ferrara and Padua,

where he received his doctorate in Canon law.

As the first in the modern age has developed the heliocentric model of the solar system. His discovery published in "on the

revolutions of the heavenly bodies

Jan Matejko (1838-1893)

- painter.Matejko is regarded as the greatest Polish creator of images of historical and battle

racing. His most famous works include:

Stańczyk (1862), sermon complaint (1864), Rejtan (1866), the battle of Grunwald (1878), the Prussian Homage (1882),

Sobieski at Vienna (1883), Kościuszko at Racławice (1888),

the Constitution of May 3 (1891). His work has been with plenty of prizes, which meant that for the rest of his life he enjoyed a great

international fame.