Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis: The Bestseller of 1897

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was born on May 5th 1846, into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland.

He normally published under the shortened version as Henryk Sienkiewicz.

It was only in 1866 that he completed his secondary-school diploma. At first he tried to study medicine, then law, at the Imperial University of Warsaw, but he soon transferred to the university's Institute of Philology and History, where he acquired a thorough knowledge of litera...