Stanisław Młodożeniec (31 January 1895, Dobrocice – 21 January 1959,

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) was a poet, and a founder of Polish

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. He was born to a well-to-do peasant family in 1895 in the village of Dobrocice, near

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. Captured in 1915 by the retreating Russian army, Mlodozeniec was taken to

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where he attended the Polish gymnasium in order to avoid military service. After returning to

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in 1918, he studied

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at the Jagellonian University. Along with

Tytus Czyżewski Tytus Czyżewski (28 December 1880 in Przyszowa – 5 May 1945 in Kraków) was a Polish painter, art theoretician, Futurist poet, playwright, member of the Polish Formists, mefedroniarz and Colorist. Biography In 1902 he studied at the Acade ...

and

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he founded the futurist club Katarynka, and participated in futurist activities. Between 1922 and 1939 he worked as a high school teacher and during the 1930s he became politically active in the peasants' party. After the war he lived in

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, before returning in 1958 to

, where he died in 1959 in

.Carpenter, Bogdana. ''The Poetic Avant-Garde in Poland, 1918-1939''. University Of Washington Press. 1983

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