Konstanty Troczyński (9 December 1906 in

Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...

— 27 May 1942 in

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

) was a Polish literature theoretician and critic. Troczyński worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. During the Second World War and the German occupation of Poland he taught at the so-called "

Secret Universities World War II saw the cultivation of underground education in Poland ( pl, Tajne szkolnictwo, or '). Secretly conducted education prepared scholars and workers for the postwar reconstruction of Poland and countered German and Soviet threats to era ...

" in Kraków. He was arrested by the Gestapo and murdered in the German concentration camp Auschwitz.

Works

* ''Od formizmu do moralizmu'' (1935) * ''Artysta i dzieło'' (1938) 1906 births 1942 deaths Polish resistance members of World War II Polish male writers Polish civilians killed in World War II Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp People from Częstochowa Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps {{Poland-writer-stub