High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ignacy Krasicki (3 February 1735 – 14 March 1801), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia (in German, Ermland) and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus, Primate of Poland), was Poland`s leading Enlightenment poet ("the Prince of Poets"), a critic of the clergy, Poland`s La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek.