PRZYSUCHA – WARSZAWA – MODLNICA – KRAKÓW

Important dates:

• 1814 – 22 of February Henryk Oskar Kolberg was born
• 1823 – Oskar started to attend the Warsaw Lyceum
• 1824 – Kolberg started to take piano lessons
• 1830 – Kolberg started to take lessons from Józef Elsner, November Uprising, closing down of the Lyceum
• 1831 – death of his father, Juliusz Kolberg; Oskar got a job as an accountant in Samuel Fraenkel’s bank
• 1835 – Oskar commenced studying composition and theory of music in Berlin
• 1839 – Kolberg began to compile information about folk music in Wilanów
• 1841 – Kolberg’s first research outing to Czersk near Warsaw
• 1842 – Oskar began to publish Pieśni ludu polskiego [The Songs of the Polish People]
• 1845 – Kolberg accepted the position of a bookkeeper in the Board of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway Line
• 1853 – Non-professional performance of Król pasterzy for the libretto Teofil Lenartowicz
• 1857 – The publication of Pieśni ludu polskiego in Warsaw
• 1859 – The official premiere of Król pasterzy in the Grand Theatre, Kolberg started to work as a co-editor of Encyklopedia powszechna by Orgelbrand
• 1863 – January Uprising
• 1865 – In the „Biblioteka Warszawska” he published the programme of his ethnographic research; Kolberg published his first regional monograph Sandomierskie
• 1867 – Kolberg published first part of Kujawy
• 1871 – Oskar left Warsaw, and moved to Modlnica near Cracow
• 1872 – death of his mother, Karolina Mercouer Kolberg
• 1873 –Kolberg became a corresponding member of the Cracow Academy of Arts and Sciences and he was elected the chairman of the ethnological section of the Commission of Anthropology
• 1880 – He took over the academic supervision of the first ethnographic exhibition in Kołomya
• 1884 – Kolberg left Modlnica and settled in Cracow
• 1889 – 50th anniversary of his research work
• 1890 – Oskar Kolberg died on June 3