Maciej Stryjkowski
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| Coat of arms | Korzbok |
| Born | c. 1547 Stryków, Kingdom of Poland |
| Died | c. 1593 |
Maciej Stryjkowski was a Polish historian.
In 1577, he wrote an epic poem On the beginnings of the famed nation of Lithuania (...),[nb 1][1] it was not published until after his death. He died around the year 1593.
Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ As in the case of his chronicle, the full title was O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych sławnego narodu litewskiego, żemojdzkiego i ruskiego, przed tym nigdy od żadnego ani kuszone, ani opisane, z natchnienia Bożego a uprzejmie pilnego doświadczenia, which could be roughly translated as On the beginnings, accounts, virtues, marital and domestic affairs of the famed nations of Lithuania, Samogitia, Ruthenia; never before touched or described by anyone, put down out of God's inspiration and own experience.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Maciej Stryjkowski; Augustyn Rotundus; Maria Karpluk; Jan Sękowski; Maria Ściebora; Jan Safarewicz (1978). Julia Radziszewska (ed.). O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych(...) (in Polish). Warsaw: PIW. p. 762.