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1857 (3 Dec) Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski is born in Berdyczów in the Ukraine, a part of Poland annexed by Russia since 1793. He is the only child of Apollo Korzeniowski, a writer, translator and Polish patriot (born 1820), and Ewa (née Bobrowska, born 1832), who were married on 4 May 1856. Both parents are members of the landowning or szlachta class, though from families very different in their traditions and commitments. The politically active Korzeniowskis espouse soldierly and chivalric qualities, upholding the tradition of patriotic action against Russia in the name of national independence and democratic reforms. In the view of Tadeusz Bobrowski (TB), chief spokesman for his family, the Bobrowskis traditionally affirm the tenets of enlightened conservatism, trusting to ‘realistic’ political adjustment and conciliation as the means to eventual Polish autonomy; no less patriotic than Apollo in his view, TB asserts the need ‘to make a sober assessment of our position, to abandon our traditional dreams, to draw up a programme of national aims for many years to come, and above all, to work hard, to persevere, and to observe a strict social discipline’ (CUFE, p. 36). These varied inheritances come together in the three fore-names chosen for JC, the first two derived from his grandfathers and the third (Konrad) from the name of the hero and Romantic patriot in Adam Mickiewicz’s dramatic poem Dziady (1832).
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Knowles, O. (1989). A Conrad Chronology. In: A Conrad Chronology. Macmillan Author Chronologies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10027-9_1
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