Jan Kochanowski

✶January 1, 1530

†August 22, 1584

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Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who wrote in Latin and Polish and established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language. He has been called the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz and one of the most influential Slavic poets prior to the 19th century.

Polish Renaissance poet (1530–1584)

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Biography from the article Jan Kochanowski on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.