1. Adam Naruszewicz has been described as one of the most significant writers of the Polish Enlightenment.
11 Facts About Adam Naruszewicz
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Adam Naruszewicz taught rhetoric at the Jesuits' elite boarding university, Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw from 1757.
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Adam Naruszewicz acted as the "king's whip" in the Senate, although he did not play a major role in the parliamentary debates, acting mostly as a writer and organizer.
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Adam Naruszewicz is buried in the Collegiate Basilica of the Holy Trinity in Janow Podlaski.
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Adam Naruszewicz wrote odes, idylls, satires, fairy tales, epigrams, and rococo poems; many of those were praising Poniatowski, although those panegyric works are rarely considered his best.
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Adam Naruszewicz wrote a tame drama, aimed at the youth, Gwido, hrabia Blezu.
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Adam Naruszewicz was the first person to translate the works of Tacitus to Polish.
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Adam Naruszewicz's works include political pamphlets in support of Poniatowski's faction, mostly focused on the subject of political history with implications for the modern era.
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Adam Naruszewicz has been credited by them with initiating a number of changes in the style of Polish literature and being one of the Polish originators of the novelty of the Enlightenment ideas expressed in poetry.
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Adam Naruszewicz's works have inspired a number of following writers.
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In Polish historiography, there is a distinction between the "Adam Naruszewicz school", supporting monarchy and strong central power, and the more liberal-republican "Lelewel school".