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Franciszek Bohomolec

Died in 1784

Franciszek Bohomolec (1720-1784), born in the Vitebsk region, son of a starosta who was several times a deputy, entered the Jesuits in 1737, studied in Vilnius and then for two years in Rome. Professor of eloquence at the Jesuit Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw from the 1750s, he wrote for the college stage, where the pupils performed, comedies imitated from Molière, Goldoni or Plautus, published from 1755 to 1760. Prefect of the Jesuit press in 1762, he directed the Courrier de Varsovie, wrote in the Monitor and launched a collection of Polish historians. He died in Warsaw in 1784.

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