Adam Naruszewicz
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Adam Naruszewicz
Noble Family	Naruszewicz
Coat of Arms	Wadwicz
Parents	?
Consorts	none
Children	none
Date of Birth	October 20, 1733
Place of Birth	region of Polesie
Date of Death	July 8, 1796
Place of Death	Janów Podlaski

Adam Naruszewicz (1733-1796) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman from an impoverished aristocratic family, poet, historian, dramatist, translator, publicist, Jesuit and titular Bishop of Smolensk (1775-1788 as suffragan bishop and 1788-1790 as full diocesan bishop) and bishop of Łuck (1790-1796).

His family had a small estate in Polesie and he was educated at Pinsk.

As a senator he participated in the Great Sejm. He taught at Warsaw Collegium Nobilum Sozietatis Jesu. When the Jesuits were shut down in 1773, King Stanislaus arranged for him the bishop's seat. After Polish defeat in the Polish–Russian War of 1792 he withdrawn from the political life and permanently setteled in Janów Podlaski where he died in 1796.

Naruszewicz was the first modern historian who wrote a History of the Polish Nation. He used for the first time in a historical work the expression Piast dynasty for the Piast the Wheelwright and his descendants that ruled in Poland to 1370. Nevertheless the term Piast dynasty was first used in the late 17th century¹ in the Silesian Piast mausoleum in Legnica.

Awards

• Knight of the Order of the White Eagle

References

External links

• Naruszewicz for the first time uses the Name Piast dynasty in a historical book for a number of early Polish rulers in his 1780-86 book: History of the Polish Nation

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