Adam Mickiewicz - Zloty Stok, Poland - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

The monument with the bust of a great Polish national poet and dramatist Adam Mickiewicz located in a small park in Zloty Stok (Lower Silesia) was unveiled here in 1976, when it replaced old German monument to the victims of WWI. The over-life size bust is placed on a top of 2 meters high granite pedestal. On the front of the pedestal there is a small plague with the name of the poet.

Biography
Adam Mickiewicz, in full Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (Dec.24,1798—Nov. 26, 1855),was a Polish national poet, essayist, translator, publicist and political writer. A prime representative of the Polish Romantic period, he is one of that country's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all Polish literature. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic and European poets. He has been described as a "Slavic bard". He was a leading Romantic dramatist and has been compared in Poland and in Europe to Byron and Goethe.

He is known primarily as the author of the poetic drama Dziady and national epic Pan Tadeusz, which is considered the last great epic of Polish-Lithuanian noble culture. Mickiewicz's other influential works include Konrad Wallenrod and Grazyna. All served as inspiration during regional uprisings and as foundations for the concept of Poland as "the Christ of Nations."

Mickiewicz was active in the struggle to achieve independence for his homeland, then part of the Russian Empire. Having spent five years in internal exile in central Russia for political activities, he left the Empire in 1829 and spent the rest of his life in other countries, like many of his compatriots. He settled first in Rome, later in Paris, where he became professor of Slavic literature at the Collège de France. He died, probably of cholera, at Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, where he had gone to help organize Polish forces to fight against Russia in the Crimean War. His remains were later moved to Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland.

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