The New International Encyclopædia/Mochnacki, Maurycy

MOCHNACKI, mṓK'-näts'kḗ, Maurycy (1803-35). A Polish publicist and critic, born at Bojaniec, Galicia. He took part in the revolution of 1830-31, and, after the capture of Warsaw, left his native country and spent the remainder of his life in France. He was the defender of the Romantic School in Poland, and is said to have dealt the death blow to Classicism in that country. His works are: A History of Polish Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1830), and a valuable History of the National Insurrection in Poland in 1830 and 1831 (1834).