Norwid i Edmund Chojecki-podróżnik
Norwid and Edmund Chojecki – the traveler

Summary/Abstract: One of Norwid’s most significant acquaintances, already in the Warsaw period, and later in Paris, was the writer Edmund Chojecki (Charles Edmond). Their friendship started in Warsaw in the 1840s and lasted for a lifetime (at least until the 1870s), although its preserved epistolary traces are scarce. This sketch focuses on Chojecki’s travelling reports and their inspiring influence on Norwid: Edmund’s trip with Count Branicki to the Crimea (Wspomnienia z podróży po Krymie, Warszawa 1845), a journey to the North Seas with Prince Napoleon (Voyage dans les mers du Nord, Paris 1857), Chojecki’s sojourn in Egypt at the turn of 1851, and finally his involvement in the setting up of the Egyptian exhibition (as the commissioner general) at the 1867 World Exhibition in Paris (L’Égypte à l’Exposition universelle de 1867, Paris 1867). The most important outcome of this inspiration is Norwid’s drama Kleopatra i Cezar and his collection of Egyptian drawings in the album Orbis (I).

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