Józef Zawadzki (publisher)

Józef Zawadzki (1781–1838) was a Polish pressman, publisher, typographer and bibliophile, one of the most prominent Polish publishers in the 19th century. He was the founder of the Zawadzki Press and was the official publisher of the Imperial University of Vilnius. He published 851 books, mostly in Polish, but also in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Lithuanian.

Józef Zawadzki
Grave of Zawadzki
Born	March 15 or March 7, 1781 Koźmin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died	December 17, 1838 Vilna, Russian Empire
Resting place	Saulė Cemetery
Occupation(s)	Pressman, publisher, typographer, bibliophile
Known for	Founder of the Zawadzki Press
Children	3

Biography

Zawadzki was born on March 15 or March 7, 1781, in Koźmin, now Koźmin Wielkopolski, Poland. In 1805, he took over the printing press of the Imperial University of Vilnius and established his own Zawadzki Press. Until 1828, he was the official printer of the university. In 1810, Zawadzki with J. Węcki opened a branch of his printing house in Warsaw.

Zawadzki published works of fiction as well as scientific works. He published Historia literatury polskiej of Feliks Bentkowski (1814), Poezje vol. 1–2 of Adam Mickiewicz (1822–1823), works of Joachim Lelewel, Jan Śniadecki and Jędrzej Śniadecki, Słownik łacińsko-polski of Florjan Bobrowski (1822), calendars, music sheets, magazines, textbooks. He was the author of Organizacja księgarstwa polskiego (1818). Zawadzki's bookstore served as a meeting place of writers and intelligentsia. In 1818, he was a co-founder of Towarzystwo Typograficzne in Vilnius. Starting in 1822, the journal Dzieje Dobroczynności Krajowej i Zagranicznej was printed by Józef Zawadzki, who was co-opted into the editorial committee that same year.

He died on December 17, 1838, in Vilnius and was buried at the Saulė Cemetery.

Further reading

• Cybulski, Radosław (1972). Józef Zawadzki — księgarz, drukarz, wydawca (in Polish). Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. OCLC 5667676.

References

• "Zawadzki Józef". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
• "Zawadzki Józef". WIEM Encyklopedia (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-12-04.
• "People of Koźmin Wielkopolski" (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-12-04.