Adam Mickiewicz was born on December 24th 1798 on Zaosie- a manorial
farm near Nowogrodek. Shortly after that his parents moved to
Nowogrodek where the father of the yet-to-be poet become a counsel
for the defence in court. It was also the place where Adam began to
learn at Dominicans' school.
In 1815 after graduating he left
Nowogrodek ande went to Vilnus, where he was studing at the university,
starting at math-nature faculty but as soon as after first semester he
switched to teaching, where he got goverment scholarship. During
studies he became a member of the Filomats Brotherhood and wrote
problem poets for it's purpose for example 'They going to judge
themselfs yet from heavens fine' in 1818. After graduating from university he had to start a work as a
teacher in Kowno's school in order to pay back his schoolarship. That is when he
wrote 'Ballads and romances' which were published in a book of poems in
1822. In 1823 russian autorities came upon a track of secret
organisations not only in Vilnus, but Lithuania-wide and that brought
the danger leading to resignation of Adam Czartoryski from the position
of asuperintendent. He was replaced by senator Nowosilcov who began
investigation agaist secret organisations of young generation..In the result of
that Mickiewicz, among the others was arrested and convicted in
1824. Adam Mickiewicz was convicted to exile deep into the Russia. He moved
from Vilnus to Petersburg then Odessa and Moscow, where he got in touch
with literats consirators and took a part in an unsuccessful
Dekabrists' rebel. During summer 1825 trip to Krym he had a chance to
get familiar with orient culture. After that he wrote 'Krym,s Sonets"
1826. In his russian period he also wrote: 'Dziady part II and IV" and
'Grażyna' (1823) and 'Konrad Wallenrod(1828). In 1929 he managed to
leave Russia
Traveling through Hamburg, Berlin, Prague and so on, he
was moving across all Europe, he was in Rome, when in 1830 he got the
news about polish uprising. He went back to his fatherland but he
didn't get to uprising and with rffugees he managed to get to Drezden
where he wrote 'Dziady part III" in 1832.
During his european trip he
wrote 'Pan Tadeusz'. He appeared in Paris in 1834 where he got married
with a polish pianist's doughter Celina Szymanowska who born him six
children.
For an academical year 1839-1840 he moved to Lozanna in
Switzerland where he became latin professor and wrote some lyrics
called Lozanians. He took from there 'tough, and came back to Paris
where he worked as a professor on slavian faculty of College the France
for four years.
During the Spring of the People (1848) Mickiewicz went
to Italy, to Rome where he was planning to crate Polish Legions but he
failed to convince either pope nor the wealthy polish emigrants parties
to support that.Yet, several-men strong under his command marched from
Rome to Milan, where they gor under the command of Lombardia and for a
year he fought against Austria.
Soon after returning to Paris he create
'People Tribune", yet he had to back out from that, and futhermore he
was taken under police supervison and finally fired from College work
for his beliefs. He succeded in taking the position of a librarian in a
French Library of Arsenal. He turned his hopes to Napoleon III and war
of 1855 between France, England and Russia.
After his wife's death
leaving his underaged children behind he went to Constantinopol. He
wanted to support with his authoritory cossack troops being created to
fight Russia. Mentally tired with fighting for the liegion's leadership
beiing also physically weakened he didn't withhold the illness. He died
at 26th onf November 1885. His death caused deep mourning not
only among the Poles.