#teodor tripplin

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He:

he took part in the November Uprising of 1830, fought in major battles and survived

traveled to England but the ship got wrecked near the shores of Norway. he survived and got to England anyway

went to Spain where he fought in civil war, traveled to Portugal and Morocco, ending up in France

became a doctor of medicine and surgery

went back to Poland (illegaly) to see his family, but got sent back to France by prussians

visited Denmark, Sweden and England. then went back to Poland (illegaly) to see his family (again), got put in prison for a while and then they sent him back to France (again)

when finally getting back to Poland, started his writing career with memoirs of his travels ("wspomnienia z podróży po Danii, Norwegii, Anglii, Portugalii, Hiszpanii i panstwie marokańskim" [1884]). however it wasn't long since he was accused of plagiarism

a man asked him to help publish his book ("Najnowsza podróż po Danii, Norwegii i Szwecji") but not thinking much, Tripplin signed the work with his own name. however he didn't have ill intentions and passed all the money to the actual author

he wrote first polish novels that could be classified as science fiction: "Maskarada w obłokach, czyli podróż nadpowietrzna nad Morze Północne" ('masquerade in the clouds, or aerial travel over the North Sea' ) published in 1856 [7 years before Verne's "five weeks in a baloon"!] and "Podróż po księżycu odbyta przez Serafina Bolińskiego" (the travel to the moon taken by Serafin Boliński) published in 1858 [7 years before Verne's "from the earth to the moon" was published]

he then travelled and lived for a bit in Vienna, Constantinopole, Greece, Jerusalem, Egypt, Algier, back to France, Italy where he fought for its independence for a bit, and then back to Jerusalem

when trying to return to Poland he got put in austrian prison and diagnosed woth tuberculosis. that got him a permit to return to the country but he had problems on the russian border, because he was dead. everyone knew he was dead and he even had a grave

as it turns out, when in Jerusalem, his student stole his belongings and documents, fled to Italy, spent a while there and then died, penniless, due to morphine addiction. he got buried as dr Tripplin while the actual Teodor never got his money or documents back

after finally reaching Warsaw in 1877, he wrote "wspomnienia z ostatnich podróży" (memories from the last travels) and died in 1881,at the age of 69

sometimes all you need in life is a fucked up little soldier-doctor-author-scifi pioneer-traveler from 1812