Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński

Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński (born February 28, 1819, Polwica, Poznań, Prussia [now in Poland]—died November 9, 1879, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]) was a Polish poet, folklorist, and politician, best known for his Poezje (1844; “Poems”), which marked him as a poet of social radicalism. Initially influenced by Romantic poetry, Berwiński studied and collected folklore in western Poland, wrote his own poems and stories, and eventually penned the pioneering Studia o literaturze ludowej (1854; “Studies...