Edmund Wacław Naganowski (26 September 1853 – 28 January 1915), 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 ...

publicist and writer also known under pen names E. Działosz, Latarnik and Edmund Sas (Sas most likely refers to his

Sas coat of arms Sas or Szász (origin: Slavic for "Saxon", Polish: ''Sas'', Hungarian: ''Szász'', Romanian: ''Saș'', Ukrainian: ''Сас'') is a Central European coat of arms. It was borne since the medieval period by several Transylvanian-Saxon Hungarian ...

Life

Naganowski was born in

Gostyń Gostyń (german: Gostyn, 1941-45: ''Gostingen'') is a town in western Poland, seat of the Gostyń County and Gmina Gostyń in the Greater Poland Voivodeship (from 1975 to 1998 in Leszno Voivodship). According to 30 June 2004 data its populatio ...

Greater Poland Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; german: Großpolen, sv, Storpolen, la, Polonia Maior), is a Polish historical regions, historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed ...

, then in

Grand Duchy of Posen The Grand Duchy of Posen (german: Großherzogtum Posen; pl, Wielkie Księstwo Poznańskie) was part of the Kingdom of Prussia, created from territories annexed by Prussia after the Partitions of Poland, and formally established following the ...

, that after 1815 was part of the

Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Re ...

. After finishing his studies in England, he was a teacher in a high school in

Waterford "Waterford remains the untaken city" , mapsize = 220px , pushpin_map = Ireland#Europe , pushpin_map_caption = Location within Ireland##Location within Europe , pushpin_relief = 1 , coordinates ...

in Ireland and he later worked at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

.A footnote in the collection of letters by

Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( , ; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (), was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especi ...

, ''Listy'' Part 1. Marian Albiński-Cyprian Godebski, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1977 On 14 February 1903 he became naturalized in Great Britain, under the name Edmund Sas de Naganowski. He served as secretary of the

Literary Association of the Friends of Poland Literary Association of the Friends of Poland is a British organisation of solidarity with Polish people, Poles, founded February 25, 1832 in United Kingdom by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell (poet), Thomas Campbell and German lawyer Adolphus Bac ...

in LondonPreface to the 2014 reprint
of the 1913 book,

Andrzej Małkowski Andrzej Juliusz Małkowski (31 October 1888, Trębki - 15 January 1919, Strait of Messina) was a Polish Scoutmaster (harcmistrz) activist of youth and independence organisations. He and his wife, Olga, are widely regarded as the founders of Sco ...

, ''Scouting in Poland'', (paperback), (hard) He is credited with the introduction of

scouting in Poland The Scouting and Guiding movement in Poland ( pl, Harcerstwo) consists of about twelve independent organizations with an overall membership of about 160,000 Scouting, Scouts and Girl Guides, Guides. The largest organization by membership is Polis ...

Monica Mary Gardner Monica Mary Gardner (26 June 1873 – 16 April 1941) was an English writer on Poland and Polish writers and a translator of Polish literature. Life and work Gardner was born in 1873 at Roehampton Lane, Roehampton, Surrey. the eldest of the six c ...

acknowledged the influence and support of Naganowski on her interests in Polish culture from 1899 to the outbreak of the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, ''The Anonymous Poet of Poland, Zygmunt Krasinski'', University Press, 1919, Preface
p.vi
/ref>

Life

References

Further reading