Jan Lam

Jan Lam (16 January 1838 in Stanyslaviv – 3 August 1886 in Lviv) was a Polish journalist, writer and comic, as well as a teacher in numerous schools of Galicia.

He is probably best remembered as the author of a poem Marsz Sokołów, the anthem of the Sokół, as well as a long-time journalist of the Dziennik Polski daily.

Born to a German family, he chose to be a Pole much like most of his colleagues and took part in the January Uprising against Imperial Russia.

In his works he mocked the short-mindedness of some nobles and the clergy, as well as the absurdities of Austro-Hungarian rule and red-tape in Galicia.

Such topics made Lam one of the most popular journalist of Lwów, a town primarily inhabited by burghers rather than gentry.