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Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)

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Henryk Sienkiewicz was a person whose work period began in 1869 and ended in 1916. He was born on 5 May 1846 and died on 15 November 1916. He is recognized in the Nobel Literature collection and received one Nobel Prize. His works are referenced by 805 other encyclopedia articles.

His top works include *O Marii Wodzińskiej*, *פאן וואלאדיאווסקי*, *די משפחה פאלאנעצקי*, *Pisma zapomniane i niewydane*, and *Aṛantsʻ dawanankʻi*. He has a work count of 635 in the Open Library, while other sources list five or eight works. He is associated with the Commons category and gallery for Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Quotes attributed to him include "Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it" and "Not Nero, but God, rules the world." On Last.fm, he has 2260 listeners and a playcount of 18754. Tags associated with him include "nie chce ale musze," "Audiobook," "true norwegian black metal," "emo," and "polska lieratura szlachecka." Similar artists listed are Andrzej Sapkowski, Jacek Piekara, Andrzej Pilipiuk, Sofokles, and Victor Hugo.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 5 May 1846
Died: 15 November 1916
Works: 635

Top works

O Marii Wodzińskiej
פאן וואלאדיאווסקי
די משפחה פאלאנעצקי
Pisma zapomniane i niewydane
Aṛantsʻ dawanankʻi

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,260
Total plays: 18,756

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
· 2017 · cited 6,296x
Akt Phosphorylation of BAD Couples Survival Signals to the Cell-Intrinsic Death Machinery
· 1997 · cited 4,535x
MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications
· 2011 · cited 3,894x
Regulation of Neuronal Survival by the Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase Akt
· 1997 · cited 1,848x
Copper Homeostasis and Neurodegenerative Disorders (Alzheimer's, Prion, and Parkinson's Diseases and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
· 2006 · cited 1,648x

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Quotes

“Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right. My jests do not prevent me from thinking at times that in truth there is only one deity, eternal, creative, all-powerful, Venus Genetrix. She brings souls together; she unites bodies and things. Eros called the world out of chaos. Whether he did well is another question; but, since he did so, we should recognize his might, though we are free not to bless it.”
“Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.”
“Riches, glory, power are mere smoke, vanity! The rich man will find a richer than himself; the greater glory of another will eclipse a man who is famous; a strong man will be conquered by a stronger. But can Cæsar himself, can any god even, experience greater delight or be happier than a simple mortal at the moment when at his breast there is breathing another dear breast, or when he kisses beloved lips? Hence love makes us equal to the gods, O Lygia.”
“Not Nero, but God, rules the world.”
“I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.”
“Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possible to love them...”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1905
“because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer”

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Works in European collections

8 objects attributed to Henryk Sienkiewicz, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( US: /ʃɛnˈkjeɪvɪtʃ, -jɛv-/ shen-KYAY-vitch, -⁠KYEV-itch; Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk ˈadam alɛkˈsandɛr ˈpjus ɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ]; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (Polish: [ˈlitfɔs]), was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as the Trilogy series and especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1895–1896).

Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in the Kingdom of Poland, at the time part of the Russian Empire, he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces in the late 1860s. In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers. In the 1880s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity. He soon became one of the most popular Polish writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and numerous translations gained him international renown, culminating in his receipt of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer".

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