Mikołaj Rej
Polish poet and prose writer, politician and musician of the Renaissance
- Lived
- 1505–1569
- Country
- Kingdom of Poland
Updated September 2026
About Mikołaj Rej
Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice was a Polish poet, prose writer, politician, and musician of the early Polish Renaissance. He was the first major author to write exclusively in the Polish language and is regarded, alongside Biernat of Lublin and Jan Kochanowski, as one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature.
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