Henryk Sienkiewicz

Litwos

Born May 5, 1846· Wola Okrzejska, Poland, Russian Empire [now Wola Okrzejska, Lubelskie, Poland]

† Died November 15, 1916

0Roles

Emerging from an impoverished Polish noble family, he received his early schooling in Warsaw before enrolling at the Imperial University of Warsaw, where he abandoned medicine and law for philology and history, acquiring fluency in Ancient Greek, Latin and Old Polish. Launching his literary career with journalistic pieces in the late 1860s, he soon gained a wide readership through travel essays fr… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources