Edmund Chojecki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund Chojecki

Polish writer, journalist, traveler, publicist and poet, Polish-French translator, supporter of national romanticism and utopian socialism

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1822

Place of Birth: Višķi, Daugavpils Municipality, Latvia

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1899

Profession: poet, translator, journalist, linguist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Edmund Franciszek Maurycy Chojecki (Polish pronunciation: [x?'j?t?sk?i]; Wiski, Podlasie, 15 October 1822 – 1 December 1899, Paris) was a Polish journalist, playwright, novelist, poet and translator.
Originally hailing from Warsaw, from 1844 he resided in France, where he wrote under the pen name Charles Edmond. Early on, Chojecki participated in leftist intellectual and political movements and edited Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz's political weekly magazine La Tribune des Peuples (The Peoples' Tribune).
In time he entered elite Parisian learned and literary circles, became secretary to Emperor Napoleon III, and co-founded the Paris daily Le Temps, predecessor to Le Monde. Chojecki wrote a notable Polish-language novel, Alkhadar (1854), and translated into Polish (1847) Jan Potocki's celebrated novel, The Saragossa Manuscript.