Name Jan Biretowski | ||
Jan Pawel Biretowski (9 June 1705 – 13 September 1781) was Polish baroque scholar and publisher of a self-help book bearing a paragraph-long title translated as the Interesting News, Important to Everyone, About the Power of all Grain, Vegetables and Various Herbs both Domestic and Wild, What Results and Benefits they Bring to Man in Various Circumstances; How Unique They Are for Preservation of the Man's Well-being, Written By Serious Scholars thus Collected and Printed in 1769 in Lowicz on the orders of Jan Zamoyski the Ordinate and Voivode of Podolia, and Reprinted in 1772 by Pawel Jan Biretowski.
The book title reads in the Old Polish: Wiadomosc Ciekawa, Kazdemu wielce potrzebna, O Skutkach Y Mocy Zboz wszelkich, iarzyn y ziol roznych, tak ogrodowych, iako y polnych, Iakie Skutki y pozytki przynosza Czlowiekowi w roznych okolicznosciach, osobliwie na poratowanie zdrowia Ludzkiego Sluzaca, : Z Powaznych Autorow Dla wygody Ludzkiey krotko Zebrana, nayprzod Roku [...] 1769 w Lowiczu wydrukowana, a teraz z rozkazu [...] Jana Ordynata Zamoyskiego Woiewody Podolskiego [...] Przedrukowana Roku [...] 1772. The book, signed by Pawel Jan Biretowski, is available through specialized libraries worldwide.