caption resting_place death_date death_place birth_place nationality name birth_date language signature image article_title birth_name occupation
adam asnyk skałka cemetery in kraków 2 august 1897 kraków , austria-hungary kalisz , congress poland polish adam asnyk 11 september 1838 polish autograph-adamasnyk . svg adam asnyk-cropped . jpg adam asnyk
 adam asnyk poet
adam asnyk

adam asnyk -lrb- 11 september 1838 -- 2 august 1897 -rrb- , was a polish poet and dramatist of the positivist era .
born in kalisz to a noble szlachta family , he was educated to become an heir of his family 's estate .
as such he received education at the institute of agriculture and forestry in marymont and then the medical surgeon school in warsaw .
he continued his studies abroad in breslau , paris and heidelberg .
in 1862 he returned to congress poland and took part in the january uprising as a freedom fighter against the country 's occupation by russian troops .
because of that he had to flee the `` tsarstvo '' and settled in heidelberg , where in 1866 he received a doctorate of philosophy .
soon afterwards he returned to poland and settled in the austrian-held part of the country , initially in lwów and then in kraków .
