Maciej Stryjkowski

Polish historian

Maciej Stryjkowski was a Polish historian.

Maciej Stryjkowski
Coat of armsKorzbok
Bornc. 1547
Stryków, Kingdom of Poland
Diedc. 1593

In 1577, he wrote an epic poem On the beginnings of the famed nation of Lithuania (...),[nb 1][1] it was not published until after his death. He died around the year 1593.

  1. As in the case of his chronicle, the full title was O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych sławnego narodu litewskiego, żemojdzkiego i ruskiego, przed tym nigdy od żadnego ani kuszone, ani opisane, z natchnienia Bożego a uprzejmie pilnego doświadczenia, which could be roughly translated as On the beginnings, accounts, virtues, marital and domestic affairs of the famed nations of Lithuania, Samogitia, Ruthenia; never before touched or described by anyone, put down out of God's inspiration and own experience.

References

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  1. Maciej Stryjkowski; Augustyn Rotundus; Maria Karpluk; Jan Sękowski; Maria Ściebora; Jan Safarewicz (1978). Julia Radziszewska (ed.). O początkach, wywodach, dzielnościach, sprawach rycerskich i domowych(...) (in Polish). Warsaw: PIW. p. 762.