Aleksander Fredro

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Count Aleksander Fredro
Portrait by Aleksander Raczyński
Born	(1793-06-20)20 June 1793 Surochów near Jarosław
Died	15 July 1876(1876-07-15) (aged 83) Lwów
Language	Polish
Nationality	Polish
Notable works	Zemsta (The Revenge)

Aleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires. His works including plays written in the octosyllabic verse (Zemsta) and in prose (Damy i Huzary) as well as fables, belong to the canon of Polish literature. Fredro was harshly criticized by some of his contemporaries for light-hearted humor or even alleged immorality (Seweryn Goszczyński, 1835) which led to years of his literary silence. Many of Fredro's dozens of plays were published and popularized only after his death. His best-known works have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian and Slovak.^[1]