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'''Maciej Stryjkowski''' (also referred to as '''Strykowski''' and '''Strycovius''';<ref>Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. t. 6, 1997</ref> {{circa|1547}} – {{circa|1593}}) was a Polish<ref name="Tiedeakatemia1993">{{cite book|author=Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia|title=Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUwRAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia|isbn=978-951-41-0742-9|page=134|quote=''The most exhaustive sixteenth-century history of Lithuania was produced by Maciej Stryjkowski (Mathias Striicovius, 1547-1585), a Pole who spent most of his life in Lithuania.''}}</ref> historian, writer and a poet, known as the author of ''Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all of Ruthenia'' (1582). The work is generally considered to be the first printed book on the [[history of Lithuania|history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]].<ref name="Osipowicz">{{cite web | author=Czesława Osipowicz | title=Polacy - twórcy na Litwie (Poles - Creating in Lithuania) | publisher=Wspólnota Polska | work=Świat [[Polish diaspora|Polonii]] | url=http://www.wspolnota-polska.org.pl/index.php?id=o_IIIfor11 | |
'''Maciej Stryjkowski''' (also referred to as '''Strykowski''' and '''Strycovius''';<ref>Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. t. 6, 1997</ref> {{circa|1547}} – {{circa|1593}}) was a Polish<ref name="Tiedeakatemia1993">{{cite book|author=Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia|title=Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUwRAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia|isbn=978-951-41-0742-9|page=134|quote=''The most exhaustive sixteenth-century history of Lithuania was produced by Maciej Stryjkowski (Mathias Striicovius, 1547-1585), a Pole who spent most of his life in Lithuania.''}}</ref> historian, writer and a poet, known as the author of ''Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all of Ruthenia'' (1582). The work is generally considered to be the first printed book on the [[history of Lithuania|history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]].<ref name="Osipowicz">{{cite web | author=Czesława Osipowicz | title=Polacy - twórcy na Litwie (Poles - Creating in Lithuania) | publisher=Wspólnota Polska | work=Świat [[Polish diaspora|Polonii]] | url=http://www.wspolnota-polska.org.pl/index.php?id=o_IIIfor11 | access-date=2006-06-28 |language=pl}}</ref> |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Maciej Stryjkowski was born around 1547 in [[Stryków]], a town in the [[Rawa Voivodeship]] in the [[Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569)|Kingdom of Poland]]. He graduated from a local school in the town of [[Brzeziny]], after which he joined |
Maciej Stryjkowski was born around 1547 in [[Stryków]], a town in the [[Rawa Voivodeship]] in the [[Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569)|Kingdom of Poland]]. He graduated from a local school in the town of [[Brzeziny]], after which he joined the [[Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army]]. He served in a garrison in [[Vitebsk]] under [[Alexander Guagnini]]. |
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[[File:Chronicle Stryjkowski.jpg|thumb|left|160px|Title page of Stryjkowski's ''Chronicle...'']] |
[[File:Chronicle Stryjkowski.jpg|thumb|left|160px|Title page of Stryjkowski's ''Chronicle...'']] |
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He was a [[Polish people|Pole]], but spent most of his life in the Grand Duchy,<ref name="Tiedeakatemia1993"/><ref name="Osipowicz"/> initially as a soldier. Around 1573, at the age of roughly 25, he retired from active service and became a [[protégé]] of [[Merkelis Giedraitis]], the [[bishop of Samogitia]]. Eventually, Stryjkowski became a Catholic priest and ended as a [[Provost (religion)|provost]] at the parish of [[Jurbarkas]] near the Lithuania–Prussia border. There he devoted his life to writing a monumental chronicle of the lands of Poland–Lithuania, eventually published in [[Königsberg]] (today [[Kaliningrad]]) in 1582. The book, published under the title of ''Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia, and all of Ruthenia of Kiev, Moscow, Novgorod...''<ref group=nb>The full title of the book in contemporary Polish language was long ''Kronika Polska, Litewska, Żmódzka y wszystkiej Rusi Kijowskiey, Moskiewskiey, Siewierskiey(...) y rozmaite przypadki woienne y domowe, pruskich, mazowieckich, pomorskich y inszych krain Królestwu Polskiemu y Wielkiemu Xięstwu Litewskiemu przyległych(...)'' and included all of the lands of mediaeval Ruthenia listed separately, as well as a short explanation of sources used. Because of that, it is usually referred to by its opening names only.</ref><ref name="Stryjkowski">{{cite book | author =Maciej Stryjkowski | title =Kronika polska, litewska, żmódzka i wszystkiéj Rusi Macieja Stryjkowskiego | year =1985 | publisher =Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe | location =Warsaw | page =572 |language=pl}}</ref> is a classic piece of literature written in the [[Polish language]] and detailed much of the history of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and its parts from their legendary roots up to 1581. Some fragments of his work are written in the [[Lithuanian language]].<ref name="Kuolys">{{cite web|last=Kuolys|first=Darius|title=Motiejus Strijkovskis|url=http://postilla.mch.mii.lt/Istorija/stryjkovskis.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030825231016/http://postilla.mch.mii.lt:80/Istorija/stryjkovskis.htm|archive-date=25 August 2003|access-date=2007-10-08|work=Informational Centre of Samogitian Culture|language=lt}}</ref> He also encouraged [[Lithuanian nobility]] to use the Lithuanian language.<ref name=Kuolys/> |
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The chronicle was a successful compilation of earlier chronicles by [[Jan Długosz]] and [[Maciej Miechowita]], but also includes Ruthenian chronicles, folk tales and legends.<ref name="PWN">{{cite encyclopedia | year = 2005 | title = Stryjkowski, Maciej | encyclopedia =[[Internetowa encyklopedia PWN|PWN Encyclopedia]] | publisher = [[Polish Scientific Publishers PWN|PWN]] | location = Warsaw |
The chronicle was a successful compilation of earlier chronicles by [[Jan Długosz]] and [[Maciej Miechowita]], but also includes Ruthenian chronicles, folk tales and legends.<ref name="PWN">{{cite encyclopedia | year = 2005 | title = Stryjkowski, Maciej | encyclopedia =[[Internetowa encyklopedia PWN|PWN Encyclopedia]] | publisher = [[Polish Scientific Publishers PWN|PWN]] | location = Warsaw |language=pl}}</ref> It instantly gained much fame among the [[szlachta]] and it is often argued that Stryjkowski was among the Polish–Lithuanian writers to shape the Lithuanian national identity, as his works were later copied by scores of writers and chroniclers in all parts of the region.<ref name="PWN"/><ref name="Miłosz">{{cite web | author=Czesław Miłosz | author-link=Czesław Miłosz | title=Aby duchy umarłych zostawiły nas w spokoju (So that the spirits of the dead leave us in peace) | publisher=[[Znak (publisher)|Znak]] | location=Kraków | work=Czesław Miłosz homepage | url=http://www.milosz.pl/e_aduznws.php | access-date=2006-06-28 | language=pl | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509161653/http://www.milosz.pl/e_aduznws.php | archive-date=2006-05-09 }}</ref><ref name="Konopnicka">{{cite web | author=Maria Konopka-Wichrowska | title=My, Litwa... (We, the Lithuania) | work=Unofficial page of Berezino | url=http://www.berezino.net/MyLitwa.html | access-date=2006-06-28 | language=pl | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928131458/http://www.berezino.net/MyLitwa.html | archive-date=2007-09-28 }}</ref> Until the 19th century, the works of Stryjkowski were considered to be the basic sources of information on early period of history of the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]].<ref name="Krawcewicz">{{cite journal | author = Aleksander Krawcewicz | title = Formowanie się koncepcji genezy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego w polskiej historiografii (Formative Period of the Concept of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish Historiography) | journal = Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne | volume = 11 | pages = 1 | url = http://www.bialorus.pl/index.php?secId=49&docId=66&&Rozdzial=historia | access-date = 2006-06-28 | language = pl | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927080317/http://www.bialorus.pl/index.php?secId=49&docId=66&&Rozdzial=historia | archive-date = 2007-09-27 | url-status = dead }}</ref> It was not until the advent of modern [[historiography]] that his chronicle started to be criticised and disputed, mainly due to his favour of the [[magnate]]s, lack of distinction between legends and historic accounts and his theory on the [[Palemonids|Roman origin of the Lithuanian ruling families]]. |
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In 1577, Stryjkowski also authored an [[epic poem]] ''On the beginnings of the famed nation of Lithuania (...)'',<ref group=nb>As in the case of his chronicle, the full title was ''O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych sławnego narodu litewskiego, żemojdzkiego i ruskiego, przed tym nigdy od żadnego ani kuszone, ani opisane, z natchnienia Bożego a uprzejmie pilnego doświadczenia'', which could be roughly translated as ''On the beginnings, accounts, virtues, marital and domestic affairs of the famed nations of Lithuania, Samogitia, Ruthenia; never before touched or described by anyone, put down out of God's inspiration and own experience.''</ref><ref name="Radziszewska">{{cite book | author =Maciej Stryjkowski |author2= |
In 1577, Stryjkowski also authored an [[epic poem]] ''On the beginnings of the famed nation of Lithuania (...)'',<ref group=nb>As in the case of his chronicle, the full title was ''O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych sławnego narodu litewskiego, żemojdzkiego i ruskiego, przed tym nigdy od żadnego ani kuszone, ani opisane, z natchnienia Bożego a uprzejmie pilnego doświadczenia'', which could be roughly translated as ''On the beginnings, accounts, virtues, marital and domestic affairs of the famed nations of Lithuania, Samogitia, Ruthenia; never before touched or described by anyone, put down out of God's inspiration and own experience.''</ref><ref name="Radziszewska">{{cite book | author =Maciej Stryjkowski |author2=Augustyn Rotundus |author2-link=Augustyn Rotundus |author3=Maria Karpluk |author4=Jan Sękowski |author5=Maria Ściebora |author6=Jan Safarewicz | title =O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych(...) | year =1978 | editor =Julia Radziszewska | publisher =PIW | location =Warsaw | page =762 |language=pl}}</ref> which however was not published until after Stryjkowski's death. He died around the year 1593, though the exact date and place remain unknown. |
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* {{cite book | author =Julia Radziszewska | title =Maciej Stryjkowski: historyk-poeta z epoki Odrodzenia (Stryjkowski: a Renaissance historian and poet) | year =1978 |
* {{cite book | author =Julia Radziszewska | title =Maciej Stryjkowski: historyk-poeta z epoki Odrodzenia (Stryjkowski: a Renaissance historian and poet) | year =1978 | publisher =[[University of Silesia in Katowice|Silesian University]] | location =Katowice |language=pl}} |
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* {{in lang|lt}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061208040923/http://www.tekstai.lt/metai/20060809/lietdiev.htm#strijkovskio List of Lithuanian Gods Found in Maciej Sryjkowski |
* {{in lang|lt}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061208040923/http://www.tekstai.lt/metai/20060809/lietdiev.htm#strijkovskio M. Strijkovskio dievų sąrašo struktūra - List of Lithuanian Gods Found in Maciej Sryjkowski chronicle] by [[Gintaras Beresnevičius]] |
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Latest revision as of 13:13, 15 October 2024
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Coat of arms | Leliwa |
Born | c. 1547 Stryków, Kingdom of Poland |
Died | c. 1593 |
Maciej Stryjkowski (also referred to as Strykowski and Strycovius;[1] c. 1547 – c. 1593) was a Polish[2] historian, writer and a poet, known as the author of Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all of Ruthenia (1582). The work is generally considered to be the first printed book on the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[3]
Biography
[edit]Maciej Stryjkowski was born around 1547 in Stryków, a town in the Rawa Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. He graduated from a local school in the town of Brzeziny, after which he joined the Grand Ducal Lithuanian Army. He served in a garrison in Vitebsk under Alexander Guagnini.
He was a Pole, but spent most of his life in the Grand Duchy,[2][3] initially as a soldier. Around 1573, at the age of roughly 25, he retired from active service and became a protégé of Merkelis Giedraitis, the bishop of Samogitia. Eventually, Stryjkowski became a Catholic priest and ended as a provost at the parish of Jurbarkas near the Lithuania–Prussia border. There he devoted his life to writing a monumental chronicle of the lands of Poland–Lithuania, eventually published in Königsberg (today Kaliningrad) in 1582. The book, published under the title of Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia, and all of Ruthenia of Kiev, Moscow, Novgorod...[nb 1][4] is a classic piece of literature written in the Polish language and detailed much of the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and its parts from their legendary roots up to 1581. Some fragments of his work are written in the Lithuanian language.[5] He also encouraged Lithuanian nobility to use the Lithuanian language.[5]
The chronicle was a successful compilation of earlier chronicles by Jan Długosz and Maciej Miechowita, but also includes Ruthenian chronicles, folk tales and legends.[6] It instantly gained much fame among the szlachta and it is often argued that Stryjkowski was among the Polish–Lithuanian writers to shape the Lithuanian national identity, as his works were later copied by scores of writers and chroniclers in all parts of the region.[6][7][8] Until the 19th century, the works of Stryjkowski were considered to be the basic sources of information on early period of history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[9] It was not until the advent of modern historiography that his chronicle started to be criticised and disputed, mainly due to his favour of the magnates, lack of distinction between legends and historic accounts and his theory on the Roman origin of the Lithuanian ruling families.
In 1577, Stryjkowski also authored an epic poem On the beginnings of the famed nation of Lithuania (...),[nb 2][10] which however was not published until after Stryjkowski's death. He died around the year 1593, though the exact date and place remain unknown.
Notes
[edit]- ^ The full title of the book in contemporary Polish language was long Kronika Polska, Litewska, Żmódzka y wszystkiej Rusi Kijowskiey, Moskiewskiey, Siewierskiey(...) y rozmaite przypadki woienne y domowe, pruskich, mazowieckich, pomorskich y inszych krain Królestwu Polskiemu y Wielkiemu Xięstwu Litewskiemu przyległych(...) and included all of the lands of mediaeval Ruthenia listed separately, as well as a short explanation of sources used. Because of that, it is usually referred to by its opening names only.
- ^ As in the case of his chronicle, the full title was O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych sławnego narodu litewskiego, żemojdzkiego i ruskiego, przed tym nigdy od żadnego ani kuszone, ani opisane, z natchnienia Bożego a uprzejmie pilnego doświadczenia, which could be roughly translated as On the beginnings, accounts, virtues, marital and domestic affairs of the famed nations of Lithuania, Samogitia, Ruthenia; never before touched or described by anyone, put down out of God's inspiration and own experience.
References
[edit]- ^ Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN. t. 6, 1997
- ^ a b Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia (1993). Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. p. 134. ISBN 978-951-41-0742-9.
The most exhaustive sixteenth-century history of Lithuania was produced by Maciej Stryjkowski (Mathias Striicovius, 1547-1585), a Pole who spent most of his life in Lithuania.
- ^ a b Czesława Osipowicz. "Polacy - twórcy na Litwie (Poles - Creating in Lithuania)". Świat Polonii (in Polish). Wspólnota Polska. Retrieved 2006-06-28.
- ^ Maciej Stryjkowski (1985). Kronika polska, litewska, żmódzka i wszystkiéj Rusi Macieja Stryjkowskiego (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe. p. 572.
- ^ a b Kuolys, Darius. "Motiejus Strijkovskis". Informational Centre of Samogitian Culture (in Lithuanian). Archived from the original on 25 August 2003. Retrieved 2007-10-08.
- ^ a b "Stryjkowski, Maciej". PWN Encyclopedia (in Polish). Warsaw: PWN. 2005.
- ^ Czesław Miłosz. "Aby duchy umarłych zostawiły nas w spokoju (So that the spirits of the dead leave us in peace)". Czesław Miłosz homepage (in Polish). Kraków: Znak. Archived from the original on 2006-05-09. Retrieved 2006-06-28.
- ^ Maria Konopka-Wichrowska. "My, Litwa... (We, the Lithuania)". Unofficial page of Berezino (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2006-06-28.
- ^ Aleksander Krawcewicz. "Formowanie się koncepcji genezy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego w polskiej historiografii (Formative Period of the Concept of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish Historiography)". Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne (in Polish). 11: 1. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-06-28.
- ^ Maciej Stryjkowski; Augustyn Rotundus; Maria Karpluk; Jan Sękowski; Maria Ściebora; Jan Safarewicz (1978). Julia Radziszewska (ed.). O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych(...) (in Polish). Warsaw: PIW. p. 762.
Further reading
[edit]- Julia Radziszewska (1978). Maciej Stryjkowski: historyk-poeta z epoki Odrodzenia (Stryjkowski: a Renaissance historian and poet) (in Polish). Katowice: Silesian University.
- (in Lithuanian) * M. Strijkovskio dievų sąrašo struktūra - List of Lithuanian Gods Found in Maciej Sryjkowski chronicle by Gintaras Beresnevičius