Hassling-Ketling of Elgin

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{{Infobox character

| name = Hassling-Ketling of Elgin

| first = The Deluge

| last = Fire in the Steppe

| creator = Henryk Sienkiewicz

| portrayer = Jan Nowicki (Fire in the Steppe)

| spouse = Krystyna Drohojowska

| gender = Male

| family = Unknown

| religion = Christianity

| nationality = Scottish

}}

Ketling (Hassling-Ketling of Elgin) is a fictional character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Fire in the Steppe, the third volume of his award-winning The Trilogy. A Scotsman, Ketling moved to Poland where he became a Colonel of Artillery in service of the king of Poland John Casimir.

Ketling married Krystyna Drohojowska, a former fiancée of his friend, Michał Wołodyjowski.

Ketling was killed in the Siege of Kamieniec Podolski, when he (together with Wołodyjowski) blew himself up in a gunpowder depot.

The historical personality on which the character was loosely based was certain Major Heyking, a mercenary from Courland and the commander of the Kamieniec Fortress during the said war.

In 1969 Jerzy Hoffman's film Ketling is portrayed by Jan Nowicki.

References

  • {{cite book |title=Fire in the Steppe |last=Sienkiewicz |first=H |author-link=Henryk Sienkiewicz |year=1992 |publisher=Hippocrene Books |isbn=0-7818-0025-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/fireinsteppe00sien |url-access=registration }}

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Category:Sienkiewicz's Trilogy

Category:Literary characters introduced in 1884

Category:Characters in novels of the 19th century

Category:Fictional Scottish people

Category:Fictional suicides

Category:Fictional characters based on real people

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