Benisławska, Konstancja (06-01-1747 - 08-11-1806)
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Short name | Benisławska, Konstancja |
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VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/10083243/ |
First name | Konstancja |
Birth name | von der Rück |
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Alternative name | Konstancja z Ryków Benisławska |
Date of birth | 06-01-1747 |
Date of death | 08-11-1806 |
Flourishing | - |
Sex | Female |
Place of birth | Poland |
Place of death | Poland |
Lived in | Poland |
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Religion / ideology | Catholic |
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Aristocratic title | - |
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inspired by | Mechtilde of Hackeborn (saint) |
inspired by | Bridget of Sweden (saint) |
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Place(s) of Residence | Poland |
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Pieśni sobie śpiewane [Songs Sung to Myself] (1776) | 0 | 0 |
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MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature Cf. - Ursula Philips, contribution NEWW nov. 2011 Ursula Phillips, Polish Women Authors: From the Middle Ages until 1800, in: A History of Central European Women's Writing, ed. Celia Hawkesworth, Palgrave 2001, p. 22-23.
from poor nobility from Livonia, received good education. Married Piotr Benisławski, from 1776 the chamberlain of the Polish court. She administered her husband's estate, rigorously raised her children. She founded a hospital in Rosoły for the poor. A collection of religious poems Songs Sung to Myself was written in the years 1774-1775, published in Vilnius in 1776 by her husband's brother, a Livonian canon, Konstanty Benisławski. Benisławska's poetry refers to seventeenth-century Baroque religious lyric poetry, associated with the Spanish mystics, especially the work of Teresa of Avila. -
alternative names: Benislawska Konstancja, Konstancja z Ryków Benislawska, Konstancja Benislawska,