Francysk Skaryna
Deceased Person
1486 – 1551
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Who was Francysk Skaryna?
Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusian humanist, physician, translator and one of the first book printers in Eastern Europe, laying groundwork for the development of the Belarusian language.
He was born into the family of a wealthy merchant in Polatsk, then a major trade and manufacturing center of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Francysk Skaryna had an older brother named Ivan, also a merchant. The brothers had a property in Polatsk, perhaps it was ancestral.
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- Born
- Mar 6, 1486
Polotsk - Ethnicity
- Belarusians
- Education
- Jagiellonian University
- Died
- 1551
Prague
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on July 23, 2013
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