Pasek, Jan ___ 1636c-1701 ___ Polish ___ soldier writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is almost no information about Pasek readily available on the internet, at least not in English. Early on in his life he was a soldier, in the Polish army. His memoirs, apparently, provide a graphic description of the Danes, who were allies of the Polish, during a war with Sweden and of a severe winter in 1657­1658. He is considered one of Poland's most important early writers. Although he has been called a Polish Pepys, it seems his memoirs were written retrospectively, possibly based on diaries written through his life.
No biography link

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1650g-1701g ___ social travel Denmark

WEB TEXT LINKS
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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Memoirs of the Polish Baroque: the writings of Jan Chryzostom Pasek a squire of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania
 

May 2005, April 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.