Zygmunt Krasiński
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| Zygmunt Krasiński | ||
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| Noble Family | Krasiński | |
| Coat of Arms | Ślepowron | |
| Parents | Wincenty Krasiński, Maria Urszula Radziwiłł. |
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| Consorts | Eliza Branicka | |
| Children | with Eliza Branicka: Wladyslaw Krasiński Zygmunt Jerzy Krasinski Maria Beatrix Krasinska Eliza Krasinska |
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| Date of Birth | February 19, 1812 | |
| Place of Birth | Paris | |
| Date of Death | February 23, 1859 | |
| Place of Death | Paris | |
Zygmunt Napoleon Krasiński (Paris, France, February 19, 1812 – February 23, 1859, Paris, France), a Polish count, is traditionally ranked with Mickiewicz and Słowacki as one of Poland's trio of great Romantic poets.
[edit] Life and work
Krasiński was the son of a general, Count Wincenty Krasiński, of the aristocratic Krasiński family. He studied law at 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.
His muse for many years was Countess Delfina Potocka (likewise a friend of Chopin), with whom he conducted a romance from 1838 to 1846. Later she continued to be his friend, and he wrote for her Sen Cezary (published 1840) and Przedświt (Dawn's Approach, published 1843).
On July 26, 1843, Krasiński married Polish Countess Eliza Branicka (1820-76).
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