Adam Gurowski [SEP] place of birth
Adam Gurowski
Count Adam Gurowski (born in Russocice near Kalisz, Poland, 10 September 1805; died in Washington, D.C., 4 May 1866) was a Polish-born author who emigrated to the United States in 1849.
Biography.
He was a son of the Count Władysław Gurowski, an ardent admirer of Tadeusz Kościuszko. Having been expelled in 1818 and again in 1819 from the gymnasia of Warsaw and Kalisz for revolutionary demonstrations, young Gurowski continued his studies at various German universities. He studied under Hegel at
of Franklin and Hawley St. (1873-1885); and "adjoining the Old South," no.10 Milk St. (ca.1885).
One of the first titles issued by the firm was the diary of Adam Gurowski, reviewed in 1862 by the "New York Evening Post": "This work is a crabbed specimen of authorship. ... The humor of it is sometimes that of Thersites, when his thorny tongue lashed the heroes of the camp, and sometimes that of Caliban when he cursed the arts of his superiors