Jan Kasprowicz

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Jan Kasprowicz 1901 on an oil painting by the painter Damazy Kotowski .

Jan Kasprowicz (born December 12, 1860 in Szymborze near Inowrocław , Kingdom of Prussia , † August 1, 1926 in Poronin near Zakopane ) was a Polish writer , poet, literary translator and university teacher.

Life

After high schools in Ratibor and Posen , he studied philology and philosophy in Leipzig and Breslau. In 1885 he published his first poems, worked as a journalist, received his doctorate in 1904 and in 1908 was given the chair for comparative literary history at the University of Lemberg , where he was rector from 1921–1922.

Kasprowicz belonged to the circle of poets of the Young Poland and wrote form-conscious, expressive poems. He translated works by Shakespeare , Byron , Goethe , Schiller and others into Polish.

Works (selection)

Poems

  • 1887: From the farmer's hut . (Z chałupy)
  • 1889: poetry . (Poezje)
  • 1890: Christ, socio-religious poem . (Chrystus)
  • 1891: From the village field . (Z chłopskiego zagonu)
  • 1894: Anima Lacrimans . (Anima lachrymans i inne nowe poezje)
  • 1895: love . (Miłość)
  • 1898: Against the rose bush . (Krzak dzikiej róży w Ciemnych Smreczynach)
  • 1901: The setting world . (Ginącemu światu)
  • 1902: Salve Regina .
  • 1908: Ballad of the Sunflower . (Ballada o słoneczniku)
  • 1911: moments . (Chwile)
  • 1916: Book of the poor . (Księga ubogich)
  • 1921: hymns . (Hymny)

Poetic prose

  • 1906: The heroic horse and the collapsing house . (O bohaterskim koniu i walącym się domu)

Dramas

  • 1891: the world ends! . (Świat się kończy!)
  • 1914: Sita .
  • 1920: Common and unlawful Markolf, Mysterium . (Marchołd gruby a sprośny, jego narodzin, życia i śmierci misterium tragikomischne)

literature

  • Karl Dedecius (ed.): Polish poetry of the 20th century . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1964, p. 176.

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personal data
SURNAME Kasprowicz, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Szymborze near Inowrocław
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1926
Place of death at Zakopane