Biernat of Lublin
Biernat of Lublin (Polish: Biernat z Lublina, Latin Bernardus Lublinius, ca. 1465 – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator, and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones.
Biernat of Lublin
drzeworyty z wyd. 1578 r. (drukarnia S. Szarffenberger) wg wydania krytycznego z 1910 r. · This image is available from the Polish Digital Libraries Federation under the digital ID oai: This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copy · Public domain
- Born
- 1465 · Lublin.
- Died
- 1529
- Nationality
- Poland
- Occupation
- linguist · poet · translator · physician · writer
- Languages
- Polish
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Biernat of Lublin (Polish: Biernat z Lublina, Latin Bernardus Lublinius, ca. 1465 – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator, and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones.
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He expressed plebeian, Renaissance, and religiously liberal opinions. • Illustration — Woodcut from Żywot Ezopa Fryga (The Life of Aesop the Phrygian), Kraków, 1578 ed.
Biernat was born in Lublin and wrote the first book printed in the Polish language: printed in 1513, in Kraków, at Poland's first printing establishment, operated by Florian Ungler—a prayer-book, Raj duszny (Hortulus Animae, Eden of the Soul). Biernat also penned the first secular work in Polish literature: a collection of verse fables, plebeian and anticlerical in nature: Żywot Ezopa Fryga (The Life of Aesop the Phrygian), 1522.
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• Raj duszny (Eden of the Soul), 1513 • Żywot Ezopa Fryga (The Life of Aesop the Phrygian), 1522 • Dialog Polinura z Charonem (Dialog of Polinur and Charon), ca. 1507
ilustracje z książki Biernata z Lublina Ezop (Ignacy Chrzanowski) wydanie krytyczne (wg edycji z r. 1578), Kraków 1910 Akademia Umiejętności w Krakowie
drzeworyty z wyd. 1578 r. (drukarnia S. Szarffenberger) wg wydania krytycznego z 1910 r. · This image is available from the Polish Digital Libraries Federation under the digital ID oai: This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copy
ilustracje z książki Biernata z Lublina Ezop (Ignacy Chrzanowski) wydanie krytyczne (wg edycji z r. 1578), Kraków 1910 Akademia Umiejętności w Krakowie
drzeworyty z wyd. 1578 r. (drukarnia S. Szarffenberger) wg wydania krytycznego z 1910 r. · This image is available from the Polish Digital Libraries Federation under the digital ID oai: This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copy
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