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Jan Kochanowski

Died in 1584

Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584), born in Sycyna into a family of middling nobility, studied in Kraków, Königsberg and then Padua under the humanist Robortello, and went on to France, where he met Ronsard, before returning in 1559. Secretary at the court of King Sigismund Augustus, holder of benefices in Poznań and Zwoleń, he withdrew around 1574 to his estate at Czarnolas, married Dorota Podlodowska in 1575 and had seven children by her, several of whom died in infancy. He died suddenly in Lublin on 22 August 1584 and was buried in Zwoleń.

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