Author: PRZYAŁGOWSKI Wincenty
Title: Lives of the bishops of Vilnius, 1-3 complete
- Place of publication: St. Petersburg
- Year of publication: 1860
- Publisher: Author's imprint. Printed by Jozafat Ohryzka
- Number of pages: [6], II, 200, III; 164, II; 251, [1], III, [1], III
- Illustrations, maps: ---.
- Size: 23.5 cm
- Binding: hard half leather with gilt on spine, decayed page edges
- Condition: rubbing of binding, stamp, traces of dampness (no harm to text), characteristic yellow spots (foxing), pen mark on one page (obliterated 4 words on last photo - attached xero of this page)
Description:
"During his stay in Vilnius, he conducted a thorough source search, mainly in the cathedral archives, as well as in archives within the diocese, as a result of which he wrote a treatise that has not lost its validity to this day - Lives of the Bishops of Vilnius (Pet. 1860 I-III). The Lives, already completed in Kronstadt (1858), covered the biographies of the Vilna bishops from the foundation of the bishopric (1387) to the death of Bishop Hieronim Strojnowski (1815)." Polski Słownik Biograficzny, T. XXIX, 1986
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Wincenty Przyalgowski (1818-1878) - Polish Catholic priest, translator, encyclopedist. He was a translator who translated a two-volume history of the Samogitian bishopric from the Samogitian language into Polish. In 1860, he published the three-volume publication Lives of the Bishops of Vilnius T. 1-3 in St. Petersburg.
He was also an encyclopedist who wrote entries for Orgelbrand's 28-volume Universal Encyclopedia from 1859-1868, and his name is listed in Volume I of 1859 as a contributor to the contents of that encyclopedia.
