Paweł Potocki
Paweł Potocki | |
|---|---|
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| Died | 1675 |
| Noble family | Potocki |
| Issue | Teodor Andrzej Potocki |
| Father | Stefan Potocki, voivode of Bratslav |
Paweł Potocki (d. 1675) was a Polish nobleman and writer. He was born into the prominent Potocki family through his father, Stefan Potocki.[1] From 1638 to 1642, he studied at the Kraków Academy and the University of Padua. By 1643, he was a royal court secretary.[2] In the mid-1650s, Paweł was captured by Russian troops and held captive in Russia for more than a decade. During his captivity, he allegedly swore allegiance to the tsar, married a Russian noblewoman, and learned material for his later work on Russian society.[3] Stefan, Paweł's father, had previously also spent some years in foreign captivity at the prison in Istanbul.
Paweł wrote several works during his lifetime. His style heavily relied on allusion,[3] with the posthumously edited version of Moschovia opening with phrases such as "aurum abire in ferrum, sanguine pluere caelum".[4] Like his father, Paweł supported the Dominican Order, and this devotion was evident in the sacral nature of Sanctitas.[2] Paweł's son was archbishop Teodor Potocki.[1]
Historian Mirosław Nagielski authored Paweł Potocki's biography for the Polish Biographical Dictionary.[3]
Works
- Moschovia sive brevis narratio de moribus magnae Russorum monarchiae, 1670.
- Saeculum bellatorum et togatorum seu centuria elogiorum clarissimorum virorum Polonorum et Lithuanorum, 1702.
- Sanctitas peregrina sive oratio in laudem divi Hyacinthi Regni Poloniae patroni, Rome, 1643.
See also
References
- ^ a b Smoleński, Władysław (1898). Dzieje narodu polskiego (in Polish). Vol. II. Kraków. p. 10. OCLC 812675335 – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Stolarski, Piotr (2016). Friars on the Frontier. Taylor & Francis. p. 196. ISBN 9781317132646.
- ^ a b c Bushkovitch, Paul (2000). "Cultural Change among the Russian Boyars 1650-1680. New Sources and Old Problems". Forschungen zur osteuropäischen Geschichte. ISSN 0067-5903.
- ^ Potocki, Paweł (1747). Załuski, Józef (ed.). Opera omnia Pauli Comitis in Aureo Potok Pilavitae Potocki... (in Latin). Warsaw. p. 161. OCLC 9811732383.