Wiktor Baworowski

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Wiktor Baworowski

Lviv | Ukraine

First name:

Wiktor

Last Name:

Baworowski

Pseudonym:

Wiktor z Baworowa

Crest:

Baworowski

Date of birth:

01-01-1825 - 31-12-1826

Place of birth:

Kołtów

Date of death:

03-12-1894

Place od death:

Lwów

Profession:

groundskeeper, poet, translator

Biography:

Wiktor Baworowski (1825/1826-1894), Polish bibliophile, patron of sciences, poet and translator, governor of Lviv. He founded the Baworowski Library in Lwów. He owned landed estates in Myszkowice, Luka Wielka, Baworowo, Zastawie, Łoszniowie and Krowinka. In 1848, he graduated from the Franciscan University in Lwów. As a translator, he mainly translated Romantic works, including Byron and Victor Hugo. In 1894 he took his own life, probably due to impending blindness.

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