Mikołaj Rej, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mikołaj Rej

Polish poet and prose writer, politician and musician of the Renaissance

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1505

Place of Birth: Zhuravno, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1569

Profession: writer, poet, politician, translator, musician

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mikolaj Rej or Mikolaj Rey of Naglowice (4 February 1505 – between 8 September/5 October 1569) was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician.
He was the first Polish author to write exclusively in the Polish language, and is considered (with Biernat of Lublin and Jan Kochanowski), to be one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature.