KLONOWIC, SEBASTIAN (FABIAN)

born c. 1545, , Sulmierzyce, Pol. died Aug. 29, 1602, Lublin pseudonym Acernus Polish poet whose work in Latin and Polish is valuable chiefly as cultural history. A burgher, he settled first in Lww and later in Lublin, where he became mayor and a municipal juror. In the Latin poem Roxolania (written 1584) he gave the first complete account of the geography, landscape, and people of Ruthenia. In the Polish poem Flis (1595; The Boatmen) he vividly described the valley of the Vistula River and the life and customs of its raftsmen. Worek Judaszw (1600; Judas' Sack), also in Polish, is a satirical and didactic work on the low life of Lublin. In the satirical and didactic Latin poem Victoria deorum (1587; The Victory of the Gods) he contended that true nobility depends not upon birth but upon character.