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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Died in 1887

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887), born in Warsaw into a family of landowners, a student in Vilnius, was arrested in December 1830 for conspiracy and remained in detention until March 1832. He then lived in Volhynia and in Zhytomyr, settled in Warsaw in 1860, then had to leave the country at the start of the 1863 uprising and settled in Dresden. The author of more than two hundred novels, he was arrested in 1883 for having given information to the French army, sentenced in 1884 to forty-two months in a fortress at Magdeburg, released for reasons of health, and died in Geneva on 19 March 1887.

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