Antoni Edward Odyniec

Antoni Edward Odyniec (1804–1885) was a romantic and neoclassical poet, diarist and translator. Odyniec studied at the University of Wilno [now Vilnius, Lithuania] and was a member of the Filaret Association, for which he was imprisoned for conspiracy in 1824-1825. Odyniec lived and worked in Warsaw in the late 1820s. He travelled around Europe with Adam Mickiewicz in 1829 and described the trip years later in Listy z podróży [Travel Letters]. He settled in Dresden in 1831. Here he translated Thomas Moore, Walter Scott and Lord Byron (and Pushkin and Schiller in later years). He devoted himself to editing the Glücksberg General Encyclopaedia and to his own writing after returning to Wilno. Odyniec spent his final two decades in Warsaw. He is buried in Powązki Cemetery.