Michał Choromański (9 June
O.S. 1904 – 14 May 1972), was a
Polish
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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
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), into a Polish doctor's family as the son of biologist Konstanty Choromański, who died during
World War I
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.
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
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in 1924.
He studied
pedagogy
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and
psychology
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and as a 17-year-old started working as a tutor, paramedic and hospital administrator, drawing teacher and literary director of a workers' club and wrote reviews for a suburban newspaper.
He was also interested in painting and created portraits.
[Marek Sołtysik, deputies to: Michał Choromański ''Jealousy and medicine''. Poznań Publishing House, 1990] He fell ill from ankle tuberculosis, caused by stress and misery, but was able to avoid leg amputation and was treated in spas.
Popular books
* (1931)
* (1932), screened (1973)
* (1934)
* (printed in „Czas” 1937, separate edition 1959)
* (1958)
* (1965), screened (1988)
* (1966)
* (1968)
* (1968)
* (1969)
* (1969)
* (1970)
* (1970)
* (1972)
* (1976, )
* (1979)
* (1993); filmed as the Polish comedy horror (1995)
References
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1904 births
1972 deaths