Stanisław Młodożeniec (31 January 1895,

Dobrocice Dobrocice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wilczyce, within Sandomierz County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Wilczyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Wilczyce, north-west ...

– 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, Młodożeniec was taken to

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where he attended the Collegium Gostomianum in order to avoid military service. After returning to

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in 1918, he studied

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at the

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. Along with

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and Bruno Jasieński he founded the futurist club , 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''.

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. 1983

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