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Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

1621 - 1693

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Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621–1693) was a Polish poet, member of the landed nobility, and official in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was starosta of Zawichost, Tymbark and Kowal. He was also pantler of Sandomierz (1647–58), Royal Secretary (from 1656), a secular referendary (1658–68), and Deputy Crown Treasurer from 1668. Apart from his career at the Polish court, Morsztyn is famous as a leading poet of the Polish Baroque and a prominent representative of Marinist style in Polish literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Andrzej Morsztyn is the 4,742nd most popular writer (up from 4,753rd in 2019), the 974th most popular biography from Poland (up from 978th in 2019) and the 115th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn ranks 4,742 out of 7,302Before him are Henri Béraud, Juan Montalvo, Źmitrok Biadula, Alexander Tairov, Alifa Rifaat, and Dun Karm Psaila. After him are Ladislav Fuks, Vladimir Dudintsev, Vitaly Bianki, David Belasco, Sakyo Komatsu, and Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1621, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn ranks 20Before him are Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, Jan Baptist Weenix, Matthew Locke, Andrew Marvell, Bohuslav Balbín, and John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. After him are Wacław Potocki, and Henry Vaughan. Among people deceased in 1693, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn ranks 19Before him are John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Maria van Oosterwijck, Laurent Cassegrain, Flavio Chigi, Willem van de Velde the Elder, and Claudio Coello. After him is Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn ranks 974 out of 1,694Before him are Eugene Lazowski (1913), Johannes Thiele (1865), Bogusław Linda (1952), Sawa (1938), Boris Chertok (1912), and Sam Warner (1887). After him are Mordecai Ardon (1896), Kazimierz Barburski (1942), Marek Hłasko (1934), Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891), Józef Młynarczyk (1953), and Ludomir Różycki (1883).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn ranks 115Before him are Hanna Krall (1935), Martin Gray (1922), Michalina Wisłocka (1921), Adam Asnyk (1838), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), and Leszek Engelking (1955). After him are Marek Hłasko (1934), Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891), Jan Chryzostom Pasek (1636), Klabund (1890), Arkady Fiedler (1894), and Horst Bienek (1930).