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Polish and Belarusian writer
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Male
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Birth:
1796(Murahi, Belarus)
Death:
28 February 1851(Chudniv, Ukraine)
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Education:
Jesuit Academy of Polotsk
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Biography
Jan Barszczewski (1794 (uncertain) – 12 March 1851) was a Polish-Lithuanian (Polish and Belarusian) writer, poet and editor. He wrote both in Ruthenian (Old Belarusian) and Polish languages.
His best-known work isSzlachcic Zawalnia, czyli Białoruś w fantastycznych opowiadaniach (1846) (Nobleman Zawalnia, or Belarus in Fantastic Stories).