Elżbieta Drużbacka

Elżbieta Drużbacka (née Kowalska, May 3 1698 – March 14, 1765 in Tarnów) was a Polish poet of the late Baroque period. Little is known of her life. She learned French at the court of Elżbieta Sieniawska. She married a Kazimierz Drużbacki, Skarbnik of Żydaczów and had two daughters. After she was widowed, she moved to the Bernardine monastery at Tarnów, where she died. Her best known work is Opisanie czterech części roku ("Description of the Four Seasons").

Biography Little is known of the life of Drużbacka. She was born 3rd May 1698 to the Kowalski family, and may have grown up in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska). She learned French at the court of Elżbieta Sieniawska, the wife of Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski and a renowned patron of the arts. It is not known what other education Drużbacka received. Marianna, second daughter, married Andrzej Wiesiołowski.

The only volume of her work published in her lifetime was put together by bishops Józef Andrzej Załuski and Andrzej Stanisław, the creators of the Załuski library. Her manuscripts were archived in the Krasiński Library, but were destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising.