Stanisław Konarski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stanisław Konarski

Poet, dramatist

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1700

Place of Birth: Żarczyce Duże, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 03-Aug-1773

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, pedagogue, piarist

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Stanisław Konarski

  • Stanislaw Konarski (actual name: Hieronim Konarski; 30 September 1700 – 3 August 1773) was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Konarski was born in Zarczyce Duze, Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship.
  • He studied from 1725 to 1727 at the Collegium Nazarenum in Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric.
  • After that he travelled through France, Germany and Austria and Poland to broaden his education. In 1730 he returned to Poland and began work on a new edition of Polish law, the Volumina legum. From 1736 he taught at the Collegium Resoviense in Rzeszów.
  • In 1740 he founded the Collegium Nobilium, an elite Warsaw school for sons of the gentry (szlachta).
  • He founded the first public-reference library on the European mainland in 1747 in Warsaw.
  • Thereafter he reformed Piarist education in Poland, in accordance with his educational program, the Ordinationes Visitationis Apostolicae...
  • (1755).
  • His reforms became a landmark in the 18th-century struggle to modernize the Polish education system. Early on, Konarski was associated politically with King Stanislaw Leszczynski; later, with the Czartoryski "Familia" and King Stanislaw August Poniatowski.
  • He participated in the latter's famous "Thursday dinners." Stanislaw August caused a medal to be struck in Konarski's honour, with his likeness and the motto, from Horace, Sapere auso ("Dare to know!").
  • Konarski argued very strongly that the right of veto that had traditionally been exercised by the Polish Nobility was not law but a custom.In his most important work, the four-part O skutecznym rad sposobie albo o utrzymywaniu ordynaryinych seymów (On an effective way of councils or on the conduct of ordinary sejms, 1760-1763), he unveiled a far-reaching reform program for the Polish parliamentary system and political reorganization of the Commonwealth's central government, which included aiding the monarch with a permanent governing council.Konarski died, aged 72, in Warsaw, Poland.
  • His heart is buried in an urn in the Piarist church in Cracow.
  • His bust can be seen at the entrance to the crypt of this church placed on ulica Swietego Jana.

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