Career
Bibliopolist of the Vilnius University and initiator of national bibliography. He published 851 books, mostly in Polish language, but also in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Lithuanian. Zawadzki published significant belles-letres, as well as scientific works.
He published Historia literatury polskiej of Feliks Bentkowski (1814), Poezje volunteer
1–2 of Adam Mickiewicz (1822–1823), works of Joachim Lelewel, January Śniadecki and Jędrzej Śniadecki, Słownik łacińsko-polski of Florjan Bobrowski (1822), calendars, music sheets, magazines, textbooks. He was an author of Organizacja księgarstwa polskiego Zawadzki"s book-store served as group of writers and Vilnius intelligentsia.
Zawadzki was born on March 15 or March 7, 1781 in Koźminimum, now Koźminimum Wielkopolski, Poland. In 1805 he founded printing house in Vilnius.
A year after he became an academic typographer.
In 1810 Zawadzki with J. Węcki opened a branch of his printing house in Warsaw. He died on December 17, 1838 in Vilnius. Buried at the Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius.