Career
Born at Liśnik Duży, Poland to a noble family. He was sent as a boy to the Wiśnicz Castle where he received his early education. Later he served for a Polish magnate Stanisław Tęczyński (important propagator of Reformation in Poland) as secretary and diplomat.
Tęczyński sent him with many diplomatic missions abroad (eg to Turkey, Sweden, and Denmark).
After Tęczyński’s death in 1561, Otwinowski returned to Poland for good, where he remained active as a humanist, theologian, and Renaissance poet. He wrote numerous Polish-language verse forms (many were lost afterwards) based on biblical, social, and erotic motives.
He died in poverty in his estate in Liśnik Duży.
