HENRYK |SIENKIEWICZ by Piotr DÄ…dela
H. Sienkiewicz was born in 1848 in Wola Okrzejska.
HE DIED
and died in 1916 in Vevey (Switzeland)
EDUCATION
He started to study medicine, changed it for law and finally philosophy and history.
SIENKIEWICZ LOVED
travelling, hunting and playing cards.
SIENKIEWICZ HAD
complex about his short height.
AND HE HAD
three wives with the same name: MARY.
SIENKIEWICZ IS ON 500 ZŁ BANKNOTE
HE IS THE FIRST POLISH WRITER WHO RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE. IT WAS IN 1905
SIENKIEWICZ WROTE
„Quo Vadis” novel. „Quo Vadis, Domine” is in Latin. It means „Where are you going, Lord?”
„QUO VADIS”
was translated into 50 languages and filmed many times.
QUO VADIS tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman - Ligia and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero, AD 64.
SIENKIEWICZ CREATED
Trilogy – three historical novels which are well known by all Polish people.
FIRST
„With Fire and Sword”- is a historical fiction novel, set in the 17th century in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.
NOVELS 1891 Bez dogmatu 1894 Rodzina Połanieckich 1896 Quo vadis 1900 Krzyżacy 1906 Na polu chwały 1910 Wiry 1912 W pustyni i w puszczy 1914 Legiony
SECOND
„The Deluge� - tells a story of a fictional Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Commonwealth during its historical period of the Deluge, which was a part of the Northern Wars.
NOVELS
THIRD
„Fire in the Steepe” - also translated into English as Sir Michael and Colonel Wolodyjowski. It is about Polish – Turkish wars in 17th century.
THE ROLE OF TR ILOGY
Trilogy was read by Polish generations when there was no Polish country on the European maps.
THE ROLE OF TR ILOGY
One of Sienkiewicz's goals in writing The Trilogy was to encourage and strengthen Polish national confidence against the occupying powers and it worked!
NAME OF OUR SCHOOL
is dedicated to Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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