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Wiadomości (London Magazine)
''Wiadomości'' was a Polish cultural weekly magazine published in London between 1946 and 1981. The journal was the continuity title of the pre-World War II weekly, '','' published in Warsaw (1924–1939) and subsequently of the "Wiadomości Polskie, Polityczne i Literackie", published during the War (1940–1944) in Paris and London. History The paper's founders in London were Mieczysław Grydzewski and Antoni Borman. Grydzewski was a seasoned publicist having already begun as the editor of the monthly literary review ''Skamander'' in 1920s Poland, before founding and editing ''Wiadomości Literackie'' in 1924. The modest circulation of 15,000, appealed mainly to the Polish intelligentsia and belied its profound cultural impact on the newly resurrected nation state. Its early contributors were heavily drawn from the ''Skamander'' literary group which numbered in its ranks people such as Julian Tuwim, Antoni Słonimski, Kazimierz Wierzyński, Jan Lechoń, Jarosław Iwaszkiewi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieczysław Grydzewski
Mieczysław Grydzewski (27 December 1894 in Warsaw – 9 January 1970 in London) was a Polish historian and journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of ''Wiadomości Literackie'' ('The Literary News') weekly. ''Wiadomości'' was continued as a major émigré journal during World War II and until 1981. During his life in Poland and abroad, Grydzewski published numerous books, journal articles, compendiums and other works, often anonymously or under assumed names. Grydzewski was born into a middle class Jewish family. During World War I, he began to study law at the University of Moscow. At the University of Warsaw, working under the direction of Marceli Handelsman, he obtained a doctorate of philosophical sciences. His 1922 dissertation was on the subject of French-Polish relations during the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski.Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Grydzewski's biography at the Archive of Emigration (in Polish)Archiwum Emigracji, Mieczysław Grydzewski/ref> ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Tuwim
Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University. After Poland's return to independence in 1918, Tuwim co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets with Antoni Słonimski and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. He was a major figure in Polish literature, admired also for his contribution to children's literature. He was a recipient of the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1935.Julian Tuwim (1894-1953) ''Qlturka.pl.'' Europejski Fundusz Rozwoju Regionalnego. Retrieved December 12, 2011. Life and work Tuwim was born into a ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Retinger
Jozef or Józef is a Dutch, Breton, Polish and Slovak version of masculine given name Joseph. A selection of people with that name follows. For a comprehensive list see and .. * Józef Beck (1894–1944), Polish foreign minister in the 1930s * Józef Bem (1794–1850), Polish general, Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary * Józef Bilczewski (1860–1923), Polish Catholic archbishop and saint * Józef Brandt (1841–1915), Polish painter * Jozef M.L.T. Cals (1914–1971), Dutch Prime Minister * Józef Marian Chełmoński (1849–1914), Polish painter * Jozef Chovanec (born 1960), Slovak footballer * Jozef De Kesel (born 1947), Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * Jozef De Veuster (1840–1889), Belgian missionary better known as Father Damien * Józef Elsner (1769–1854), Silesian composer, music teacher, and music theoretician * Jozef Gabčík (1912–1942), Slovak soldier in the Czechoslovak army involved in Operation Anthropoid * Jozef A.A. Geer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ksawery Pruszyński
Franciszek Ksawery Pruszyński (4 December 1907 – 13 June 1950) was a Polish journalist, publicist, writer and diplomat. He was one of the most active and operative of Polish newspaper reporters. Biography He was born in Wolica Kierekieszynanow in Ukrainein Volhynia. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 his family settled in Kraków. A graduate of the Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie in 1927, he studied law at Jagiellonian University. He joined the organization '' Myśl Mocarstwowa'' (Imperial Thought). His works first appeared in '' Dzień Akademicki'' and '' Civitas Academica''. He specialized in medieval German law, taught by professor Stanisław Estreicher. In 1929 he was deputy assistant to Estreicher. He travelled all over Europe contributing articles to the leading Polish papers. He joined the editorial board of the newspaper '' Czas'' from Kraków, first as a proofreader, then surveying the foreign press, and from 1930, author of a series of rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, ''née'' Kossak (24 November 1891 – 9 July 1945), was a prolific Polish poet known as the ''Polish Sappho'' and "queen of lyrical poetry" during Poland's interwar period. Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska: Biography and ''A Woman of Wonder'' , . She was also a dramatist. Life 
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Stanisław Ossowski
Stanisław Ossowski ( Lipno, 22 May 18977 November 1963, Warsaw) was one of Poland's most important sociologists. He held professorships at Łódź University (1945–47) and Warsaw University (1947–63). Life Ossowski first contributed to logic and aesthetics before moving on to sociology. He studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw, his teachers were i.a. Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Jan Łukasiewicz and Władysław Tatarkiewicz. He also studied in Paris (Collège de France), in Rome and in London. He took part in the 1920 war. Doctorate (Analysis of the notion of a sign, 1925) wrote to Tadeusz Kotarbiński at the University of Warsaw. He took part in the September campaign. He spent the occupation in Lviv and Warsaw. He taught sociology at an underground university. He was a proponent of humanistic sociology and antinaturalism, differentiating between the natural sciences and the social sciences. He believed that all phenomena of social life had a consciousness aspect. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irena Krzywicka
Irena Krzywicka ''née'' Goldberg (; 28 May 1899 – 12 July 1994) was a Polish feminist, writer, translator and activist for women's rights, who promoted sexual education, contraception and planned parenthood. Biography Early life Krzywicka was born in a family of Polish-Jewish left-wing intelligentsia. Her parents were socialist activists exiled to Siberia, where Irena was born. Her father, Stanisław Goldberg, was a physician, and her mother was a dentist. During the exile, Irena's father developed tuberculosis and died three years after their return to Poland. She was brought up by her mother, a lover of Polish literature, in a spirit of tolerance and rationalism. In 1922, Krzywicka graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in Polish. She did not finish her doctoral thesis because of a conflict with her supervisor. During her time at the university she published her first essay ''Kiść bzu'' ('A Spray of Lilac'). In 1923 Irena married Jerzy Krzywi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karol Irzykowski
Karol Irzykowski (23 January 1873 – 2 November 1944) was a Polish writer, literary critic, film theoretician, and chess player. Between 1933–1939 in the Second Polish Republic he was a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature founded by the decree of the Council of Ministers. Life Irzykowski was born in Błaszkowa, near Pilzno. He came from an aristocratic land-owning family that had fallen on hard times. From 1889 to 1893, he studied Germanistics in Lwów (Lemberg). From 1894 to 1895, he worked occasionally as a teacher, but his outspokenness prevented him from obtaining further work in that line. From 1895, he lived in Lwów and worked as a parliamentary and court stenographer. In 1903, he published one of the most original novels of that time, ''Pałuba''. In this highly complex and avantgarde work, he anticipated many innovations made by modern European experimentalists such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner or André Gide. The novel has ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Choromański
Michał Choromański (9 June O.S. 1904 – 14 May 1972), was a Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ... writer, playwright and translator. He is best known for his novelistic studies of psychological states. Early life and education Michał Choromański was born in Yelisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi), into a Polish doctor's family as the son of biologist Konstanty Choromański, who died during World War I. He spent his childhood and youth in Yelisavetgrad and attended the high school and the Technical School of Economics. Experiencing chaos and the horrors of revolutionary Russia, Choromański moved from Yelisavetgrad first to Warsaw and then to Podhale in 1924. He studied pedagogy and psychology and as a 17-year-old started working as a tutor, paramedic and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Breiter
Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detectives'' (1929), a children's novel *"Emil", nickname of the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration (1982–1999) *''Emil i Lönneberga'', a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren Military *Emil (tank), a Swedish tank developed in the 1950s * Sturer Emil, a German tank destroyer People *Emil (given name), including a list of people with the given name ''Emil'' or ''Emile'' *Aquila Emil (died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer Other * ''Emile'' (film), a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai *Emil (river), in China and Kazakhstan See also * * *Aemilius (other) * Emilio (other) * Emílio (other) *Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (better known by his pen name, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński or simply as Boy; 21 December 1874 – 4 July 1941) was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100 French literature , French literary classics into Polish language , Polish. He was a pediatrician and gynecology, gynecologist by profession. A notable personality in the Young Poland movement of to 1918, Boy was the ''enfant terrible'' of the Polish literature , Polish literary scene in the first half of the 20th century. He was murdered in July 1941 by Operation Barbarossa , invading German forces during what became known as the massacre of Lviv professors , massacre of the Lwów professors. Early life Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (of the Ciołek coat of arms, ''Ciołek'' coat-of-arms) was born on 21 December 1874 in Warsaw, to Wanda, ''née'' Grabowska, who was from a Frankist family of converts to Catholicism,''Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry'', Basil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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