1. Ignacy Krasicki ( )
"I śmiech niekiedy może być nauką, Kiedy się z przywar, nie z osób natrząsa." Ignacy Krasicki

2. Ignacy Krasicki was born on 3rd February in Dubieck on the River San in an impoverished lordly family, which decided to make him a clergyman.

3. Ignacy Krasicki studied in Lwów, Rome and Warsaw
Ignacy Krasicki studied in Lwów, Rome and Warsaw. Amongst his friends was the Polish king August Poniatowski who made him his chaplain and associate .

4. Krasicki became the Kijów and Przemyśl canon in 1759 and in 1763 he got the post of primate Łubieński’s secretary. In 1766 Krasicki was appointed the Bishop of Warmia, which gave him the status of a senator of the Republic.

5. His ecclesiastic court in Lidzbark Warmiński (Heilsberg) was a centre of cultural and artistic life.

6. In 1772, due to the first partition of Poland, Krasicki became a subordinate of the Prussian king. This however did not put an end to his relations with his homeland. Krasicki’s articles were published, among other newspapers, in “Monitor”. Krasicki was its co-publisher an editor-in-chief.

7. Since then yet, Ignacy Krasicki rarely visited Warsaw, He spent a lot of time on writing and arranging his residence in Lidzbark Warmiński. Living on a high standard got the poet into debts which he couldn’t pay off till his death.

8. In 1795 he was appointed the archbishop of Gniezno and that’s why he moved to Skierniewice and Łowicz. Ignacy Krasicki died on the 14th of March 1801 in Berlin.

9. The flowering of Ignacy Krasicki’s creative power took place between the years 1775 and The writer used many genres and this versatility makes him the leading figure of Polish Enlightenment. In his pieces of writing one can find such topics as: human nature, its failures, moral code, the good which are presented in a very interesting form through humor, satire and irony.

10. Krasicki’s most important pieces of writing are: Myszeis (1775), a satiric novel Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki (1776), Monachomachia, czyli Wojna mnichów (1778) which satirized the decline of monastic life, educational novel Pan Podstoli (parts 1-2, ), Bajki i przypowieści (1779), Satyry (1779), Antymonachomachia (1779 ).

11. Krasicki is also the author of popular patriotic pieces of writing such as The Hymn to the Love of Motherland (1774) and a song to commemorate the 3rd of May He was a real master of many genres but also an innovator in prose.

12. Dziękujemy!
Prezentację wykonali uczniowie Gimnazjum nr 7 im. Ignacego Krasickiego w Olsztynie.