Emil Korytko

Emil Antoni Korytko was a Polish political activist in the period of the Great Emigration, who was exiled to Ljubljana, Carniola and became an important ethnographer, philologist and translator there. His legacy are collections of Slovene folk songs and vivid descriptions of Carniolan folk customs. He significantly contributed to the mutual dialogue between Polish and Slovene authors and readers.

7 September 1813

Born on the same birth day (7 September): Dean-Charles Chapman • Emese Szász-Kovács • George Waggner • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon • Harold Amos • Leonard Rosenman • Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse • Marc Hunter • Michael DeBakey • Miranda (footballer, born 1984) • Owen Pallett • Patrick Jenkin • Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr • Sara Carrigan • Taylor Caldwell • Todor Zhivkov

Born in the same month (September 1813): John Rae (explorer) • John Sedgwick