Józef Zawadzki (publisher)

Józef Zawadzki (publisher)

Infobox Person
name = Józef Zawadzki


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caption = Grave of Zawadzki
birth_name = Józef Zawadzki
birth_date = March 15 or March 7, 1781
birth_place = Koźmin
death_date = December 17, 1838
death_place = Vilnius
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resting_place = Antakalnis Cemetery, Vilnius
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nationality = Polish
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occupation = pressman, publisher, typographer, bibliopolist
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children = Adam Zawadzki
Feliks Zawadzki
parents = Kasper Zawadzki
Stanisława z Kobierskich
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Józef Zawadzki (1781–1838) was a Polish pressman, publisher, typographer and bibliopolist, one of the most prominent Polish publisher in the 19th century. Bibliopolist of the Vilnius University and initiator of national bibliography. He published 851 books, mostly in Polish language, but also in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Lithuanian.

Zawadzki published significant belles-letres, as well as scientific works. He published "Historia literatury polskiej" of Feliks Bentkowski (1814), "Poezje" vol. 1–2 of Adam Mickiewicz (1822–1823), works of Joachim Lelewel, Jan Śniadecki and Jędrzej Śniadecki, "Słownik łacińsko-polski" of Florjan Bobrowski (1822), calendars, music sheets, magazines, textbooks. He was an author of "Organizacja księgarstwa polskiego" (1818). Zawadzki's book-store served as group of writers and Vilnius inteligentsia. In 1818 was a co-founder of Towarzystwo Typograficzne in Vilnius.

Biography

Zawadzki was born on March 15 or March 7, 1781 in Koźmin, now Koźmin Wielkopolski, Poland. In 1805 he founded printing house in Vilnius. A year after he became an academic typographer. In 1810 Zawadzki with J. Węcki opened a branch of his printing house in Warsaw.

He died on December 17, 1838 in Vilnius. Buried at the Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius.

Notable books

* cite book
last=—.
year=1818
title=Organizacja księgarstwa polskiego

Further reading

* cite book
last=Cybulski
first=Radosław
title= Józef Zawadzki — księgarz, drukarz, wydawca
year=1972
language=Polish
publisher=Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich
location=Wrocław
oclc=5667676

References

* cite web
title=Zawadzki Józef
work=Internetowa encyklopedia PWN
url=http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4000648
accessdate=2007-12-04
language=Polish
publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN
* cite web
title=Zawadzki Józef
work=WIEM Encyklopedia
url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/60791,,,,zawadzki_jozef,haslo.html
language=Polish
accessdate=2007-12-04
* cite web
url = http://www.kozminwlkp.pl/index.php?site=pochodzili
title = People of Koźmin Wielkopolski
accessdate = 2007-12-04
language = Polish


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