This medal has been minted to commemorate the Polish poet Henryk Sienkiewicz
The artist is the distinguished sculptor and medals engraver, Prof. Gorol
av. The portrait of Henryk Sienkiewicz
rv. The Wola Okrzejska house, Sienkiewicz place of birth"
diameter - 70 mm
weight about 120gr. (about 4.24 oz.)
metal – bronze silvered metal
Henryk Adam
Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz May 5, 1846 – November 15, 1916) was a Polish
journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic (noble) of the
Oszyk coat of arms, he was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn
of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."
Born into
an impoverished noble family in Russian-ruled Poland, Sienkiewicz wrote
historical novels set during the Rzeczpospolita (Polish Republic, or
Commonwealth). Many of his novels were first serialized in newspapers, and even
today are still in print. In Poland, he is best known for his historical novels
"With Fire and Sword", "The Deluge", and "Pan
Michael" (The Trilogy) set during the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth, while internationally he is best known for Quo Vadis, set in
Nero's Rome. Quo Vadis has been filmed several times, most notably the 1951
version.
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