[1764] Biegaczewicz Wojciech, Mowa do nayjasnieyszego [...] monarchy Stanislaw August krola polska....

Biegaczewicz Wojciech Jan Kanty (1711-1767), Sermo ad serenissimum [...] principem Stanislaum Augustum Poloniarum regem [...] = Mowa do nayjasnieyszego [...] monarchy Stanisława Augusta krola polskiego [...] / x.m. Woyciech Biegaczewicz [...] Krakowskiey Nauk Akademii rektora w Warszawie 1764. on 9. December, [Warsaw?] : [printer unknown], [after 9 XII 1764], [4] pages, unsigned ;title page and text simultaneously in Latin and Polish. Infrequent in antiquarian circulation.

An old print containing the text of a laudation in honor of Stanislaw August Poniatowski, the last ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, crowned on November 25, dated December 9, 1764.

State of preservation: good, stain in margin, signature in pencil, soiled edges.

Wojciech Jan Kanty Biegaczewicz (born ca. 1711, died March 6, 1767 in Cracow) - philosopher and theologian, rector of the Cracow Academy in 1763-1765. He studied at the Krakow Academy where he received his doctorate in 1731, and later was a professor of rhetoric and philosophy. From 1749 to 1750 he served as dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 1750 the chapter of St. Anne's Collegiate Church in Cracow, of which he was a canon and dean, entrusted him with the office of historiographer of the Academy. In 1751 he became a professor of the Theological Faculty. He published 24 works of a theological, philosophical and historical nature, the more important of which include Sidus musis amicum Joannes Cantius (published 1737), Ascensus gentilitiorum (Krakow 1749), Quaestio theologica de beatitudine (published 1762)