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Name
  
Biernat Lublin

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1529


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. He expressed plebeian, Renaissance and religiously liberal opinions.

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Life

Biernat 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.

Works

  • 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)
  • References

    Biernat of Lublin Wikipedia