Florian Stanisław Ceynowa (Kashubian Florión Cenôwa) (May 4, 1817 – March 26, 1881) was a doctor, political activist, writer, and linguist. He undertook efforts to identify Kashubian language, culture and traditions. He and Alexander Hilferding were not the only ones to study the language and legends of the Kashubians, but they had the greatest influence and prompted others to take up investigations. The individual nature of the Kashubian character and language was first described by Hilferding, to whom we are indebted for the first data about the range of Kashubian dialects. In 1856, he and Ceynowa traveled to the Kashubia. He awakened Kashubian self-identity, thereby opposing Germanisation and Prussian authority, and Polish nobility and clergy. He believed in a separate Kashubian identity and strove for a Russian-led pan-Slavic federation. He strove to create a program aimed at the introduction of a Kashubian standard in grammar, pronunciation and spelling, based on the spirit of the 1848 Revolution. He compiled treatises on Kashubian grammar and published Kashubian texts along with their translations into other Slavic languages. An important person for Kashubian literature, he was also a translator of Russian texts into Kashubian language.
Ceynowa was a pioneer of the nationalist movement among the Kashubian people in the mid-19th century. He was part of an attempt to take the Prussian garrison in Preußisch Stargard (Starogard Gdański) during 1846, but the operation failed when his 100 combatants, armed only with scythes, decided to abandon the site before the attack was carried out.
An earlier version of Ceynowa's Kashubian alphabet, which dates back to 1850
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Florian Stanisław Ceynowa (Kashubian Florión Cenôwa) (May 4, 1817 – March 26, 1881) was a doctor, political activist, writer, and linguist. He undertook...
decision was soon repealed. In the 19th century the Kashubian activist FlorianCeynowa undertook efforts to identify the Kashubian language, and its culture...
or a separate language. Stefan Ramułt (1859–1913) was fascinated by FlorianCeynowa and decidedly supported giving Kashubian the status of a full-fledged...
18°24′39.71″E / 54.7210361°N 18.4110306°E / 54.7210361; 18.4110306 The FlorianCeynowa Museum of the Puck Region in Puck-(Polish: Muzeum Ziemi Puckiej im...
in the western (Kashubian) part of the area. In the 19th century, FlorianCeynowa became Kashubian's first known activist. He undertook tremendous efforts...
use since the late Middle Ages. In the mid-19 century the linguist FlorianCeynowa described the inhabitants of Kociewie; he named the people around Gniew...
stuffed with feathers. The ritual was first mentioned in an 1851 text by FlorianCeynowa, who described the custom as it was in his home village. Also Jan Patock...
by Prussian authorities in Kołobrzeg. 1846: 100 Kashubians led by FlorianCeynowa fail in an attempt to take the Prussian garrison Preußisch Stargard...
community within Germany became more self-aware (thanks to figures such as FlorianCeynowa and Aleksander Majkowski) it became more resilient in contending with...
and upgrading of the Kashubian identity, in 2008, he was awarded the FlorianCeynowa Medal "Awakener of Kashubians" ("Budziciel Kaszubów"). "Nie żyje prof...
prominent Polish-Kashubian activists and writers Aleksander Majkowski, FlorianCeynowa and Jan Karnowski, future minister and senator in independent Poland...
expressed by FlorianCeynowa and others that Kashubia was better associated with the pan-Slavic movement than with Poland. However, Ceynowa's reservations...
dasselbe" (We are Slovincians, Slovincians and Kassubians are the same). FlorianCeynowa and Hilferding were not the only ones to study the language and legends...
and Polish. On the death of the founder of Kaszubian literature, Dr. FlorianCeynowa, he famously stated Nie ma Kaszëb bez Polonii, a bez Kaszëb Polśczi...
of which was his friend, Brunon Gabrylewicz. In Wrocław, he found FlorianCeynowa's doctoral dissertation; he sent it to "Gryf" where it was published...
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