Józef Weyssenhoff (writer)

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Józef Weyssenhoff (born April 8, 1860 in Kolano ( Powiat Parczewski ), † July 6, 1932 in Warsaw ) was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic and publisher.

Józef Weyssenhoff

Weyssenhoff came from the German-Baltic nobility who became Polish in the 17th century (he had the title of baron). In 1935 a family chronicle was published by him. Weyssenhoff grew up in Vilnius and Warsaw, studied law in Dorpat and then managed the inherited estate in the Lublin area. He was in Warsaw from 1891, but traveled a lot in Europe. From 1907 to 1910 he lived in Berlin (Steglitz), during the First World War in Russia and from 1918 mostly in Warsaw, where he was also a publisher (editor of the Warsaw library ). From 1924 to 1928 he lived in Bydgoszcz .

He was conservative and skeptical of the modern age. His novels are mostly about the Polish aristocracy and hunting. In addition to novels, he published poems and a literary diary.

He was the father of the physicist Jan Weyssenhoff . His cousin was the painter Henryk Weyssenhoff .

Works

  • Żywot i myśli Zygmunta Podfilipskiego 1898
    • German translation: Life and thoughts of Mr. Siegmund von Podfilipski , S. Fischer 1916, and: The noble world: Life u. Thoughts of Mr. Zygmunt Podfilipski , Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1979, 1987
  • Soból i pana 1912
    • German translation: The sable and the fairy: Jagdroman , Essen publishing house 1937
  • Puszcza, 1915 (The forest, novel)
  • Syn marnotrawny, 1905
    • German translation: The prodigal son: a novel from the Polish aristocratic world , Ullstein 1917

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Józef Weyssenhoff: Kronika rodziny Weyssów Weyssenhoffów, Wilno 1935. Quoted in Jürgen Heyde, Polish research on the history of the Baltic countries - historical development and current tendencies, Journal for East-Central European Studies, Volume 52, 2003, Issue 1, p. 57
personal data
SURNAME Weyssenhoff, Józef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolano
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1932
Place of death Warsaw