Zygmunt Krasiński

Zygmunt Krasiński
Noble Family	Krasiński
Coat of Arms	Ślepowron
Parents	Wincenty Krasiński Maria Urszula Radziwiłł.
Consorts	Eliza Branicka
Children	with Eliza Branicka Wladyslaw Krasiński Zygmunt Jerzy Krasinski Maria Beatrix Krasinska Eliza Krasinska
Date of Birth	February 19, 1812
Place of Birth	Paris
Date of Death	February 23, 1859
Place of Death	Paris

Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwik Zygmunt Krasiński (Paris, France, February 19, 1812 – February 23, 1859) is traditionally ranked with Mickiewicz and Słowacki as one of Poland's trio of great Romantic poets.

Life and work

Krasiński was the son of Wincenty Krasiński, of the aristocratic Krasiński family. He studied law in Warsaw (Warsaw University) and in Geneva, where he met Adam Mickiewicz.

Krasiński was more sociopolitically conservative than the other two poets. He is best known for his philosophical Messianist ideas. His drama, Nie-boska Komedia (The Un-Divine Comedy, 1835), portrays the tragedy of an old-world aristocracy defeated by a new order of communism and democracy, and is a poetic prophecy of class conflict and of Russia's October Revolution (see also Okopy Świętej Trójcy); and his drama, Irydion (1836), deals, in the context of Christian ethics, with the struggle of a subjugated nation against its oppressor.

Krasiński's Agaj-Han (1834) is also well known in Poland. Later (1844-1848) he wrote Psalmy Przyszłości (Psalms of the Future).

He published much of his work anonymously.

Krasiński was married to Polish noblewoman and Countess Eliza Branicka (1820-1876). He married her on 26 July, 1843.

See also

• Great Emigration
• Hôtel Lambert
• History of philosophy in Poland

External links

• Biography at culture.pl
• Biography at Catholic Encyclopedia

Krasiński's wife and children

Krasiński's family coat-of-arms, Ślepowron

The Three Bards

Mickiewicz Słowacki Krasiński

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