Jan Rompski (8 December 1913 – 30 December 1969; Kashubian: ''Jón Rómpsczi'') was a Kashubian activist, poet, writer, journalist and ethnographer. He was one of the most important people in the organization "Zrzeszyńce". During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

he belonged to the secret anti-Nazi organization Pomeranian Griffin (''Krëjamnô Wòjskòwô Òrganizacëjô "Pòmòrsczi Grif"''). He was imprisoned in a concentration camp

Stutthof Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-a ...

. After the war he finished his studies ( Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) and was strongly involved in Kashubian movement.

Bibliography

*"Kiej" *"Vzenjik Arkonë" *"Reboce" *"Za zemjã" (1956) *"Pòrénk" (1957), *"Roztrąbarch" (1958), *"Lepszé checze" (1958) *"Gãsy ùd" (1959) *"Scynanié kanië" (1961) *"Pomión zwonów" (1970) *"Ścinanie kani. Kaszubski zwyczaj ludowy" (1973) *"Wiérzte" (1980)

Sources

#L. Bądkowski: Zarys historii literatury kaszubskiej, Gdańsk 1959, 2006. #G. Stone: Slav outposts in Central European history : the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs, London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. #J. Kurowska i in.: ''Katalog rękopisów Muzeum Piśmiennictwa i Muzyki Kaszubsko-Pomorskiej w Wejherowie'', tom I. ''Spuścizna Jana Rompskiego'', Wejherowo 2005. #F. Neureiter: Geschichte der Kaschubischen Literatur. Versuch einer Zusammenfassenden Darstellung’’, Otto Sagner Verlag München 1991 (Jan Rompski pp. 178–185). #F. Neureiter: Historia literatury kaszubskiej. Próba zarysu, Wydawnictwo Morskie, Gdańsk 1982 - #R. Osowicka: Leksykon wejherowian, Wejherowo 2008 (short biography). Kashubians Kashubian poets Kashubian literature 1969 deaths 1913 births Stutthof concentration camp survivors People from Kartuzy 20th-century Polish poets Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń alumni {{Poland-poet-stub