The 1918 publication was commemorative and patriotic in nature, highlighting the writer’s contributions in the year Poland regained its independence.
Karol Szajnocha, an outstanding Polish historian, writer, independence activist, and longtime employee of the Ossolineum in Lviv. He was born on November 20, 1818, in Komarno, and died on January 10, 1868, in Lviv, where he is buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery. His works (including the monumental novella *Jadwiga and Jagiełło*) shaped the Polish historical imagination and served as inspiration for, among others, Henryk Sienkiewicz while writing *The Teutonic Knights*.
107 pages, paperback.
