Jan Kochanowski
Polish poet
Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who wrote in Latin and Polish and established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language. He has been called the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz and one of the... Wikipedia
Born: 1530, Sycyna Północna, Poland
Died: August 22, 1584 (age 54 years), Lublin, Poland
Children: Urszula Kochanowska, Ewa Kochanowska, Poliksena Kochanowska, and more
Spouse: Dorota Podlodowska (m. 1575–1584)
Education: University of Königsberg (1555–1556), University of Padua (1552–1555), and Jagiellonian University (1544–1547)
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