Aleksander Fredro

Aleksander Fredro (1793-1876), born at Surochów, near Jarosław, the son of a landowner whose family received the title of count in 1822, was educated at home and enlisted at sixteen, in 1809, in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw. He took part in the Russian campaign, was taken prisoner and escaped, then served in 1813 and 1814 as an orderly officer on Napoleon's staff, which he left as a captain in 1815. Retired to his estates in Galicia, he was attacked by romantic critics, who reproached him for his indifference to the national cause, stopped publishing for a long time and died in Lwów in 1876.

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