Teofil Lenartowicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Teofil Lenartowicz

Poet and writer

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1822

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1893

Profession: writer, poet, translator, author, sculptor

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Teofil Aleksander Lenartowicz (27 February 1822 in Warsaw – 3 February 1893 in Florence) was a Polish ethnographer, sculptor, poet and Romantic conspirator.
Linked to Bohemians among Warsaw intellectuals, Lenartowicz was associated with Oskar Kolberg and Roman Zmorski in the anti-Tsarist independence movement, and participated in the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 during his stay in Kraków.
While in exile he taught Slavic literature at the University of Bologna, composed patriotic and religious poems, as well as lyrical and historical epics based on the folklore of his beloved region of Mazowsze.
He did portrait-sculptures, and designed tombstones.Teofil Aleksander came from the master mason family of Lenartowicz Pobóg coat of arms.
He was the son of Karol and Maria née Kwasieborska Cholewa coat of arms.
While in Florence, he married sculptor Zofia Szymanowska Mlodzian COA, with whom he had a son John (Jan).
His remains were brought from Italy to Poland and interred in the Crypt of the Distinguished in the St.
Stanislaus Church at Skalka in Kraków.



Alternative names	Jozef Simmler; Jakub Józef Simmler; Jakub Jozef Simmler
Description	Polish-Russian painter
Date of birth/death	14 March 1823	1 March 1868
Location of birth/death	Warsaw	Warsaw
Work location	Warsaw
Authority control	: Q327738 VIAF: 18029772 ISNI: 0000 0001 0957 4180 ULAN: 500016121 LCCN: n80126909 Open Library: OL471734A WorldCat