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Henryk Sienkiewicz

1846–1916 · 19th century

Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. He is best known for Quo Vadis and for his historical novels, among them the Trilogy set in seventeenth-century Poland and The Teutonic Knights (Krzyżacy, 1900), which culminates in the Battle of Grunwald and shaped Polish popular memory of the Order as an aggressor.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Henryk Sienkiewicz. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/henryk-sienkiewicz
MLA: “Henryk Sienkiewicz.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/henryk-sienkiewicz. Accessed .
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