Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar
Baron Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar , Polish Władysław Pilars de Pilar (born March 3, 1874 in Opatówek , Congress Poland ; † November 22, 1952 in Chorzów , Poland ) was a Polish-German poet and industrialist.
Life
Ladislaus Baron Pilars de Pilar was born in Opatowek in the Kalisch district as the son of the industrialist Eduard Pilars (1834–1905) and Ewa Pilars. Grzankowska grew up. Here he was influenced by the brothers, publicists and patriots Stefan and Agaton Giller . His ancestors come from the Spanish Margraves de Pilares, who emigrated to Bohemia and later to Opatowek under the Napoleonic occupation of Spain in the entourage of Ferdinand VII . Ladislaus completed an engineering degree in Berlin . He married on May 9, 1898 in Birstein , Hesse, Antonia Freiin von Oer-Egelborg (1872-1946), lady-in-waiting of the Duchess Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1884-1944), a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II. Antonia was a daughter of Friedrich Freiherr von Oer (1842–1896), upper chamberlain of Prince Isenburg and Gabriele Khuen von Belasi (1841–1923). Best man was Prince Karl II zu Isenburg and Büdingen (* 1838, † 1899) personally, as Antonia was the prince's ward after the death of her father. With Antonia Ladislaus had three children: Eduard (1899–1971), Antoinette (1901–1989) and Gabriel (1904–1978). Gabriel married Countess Anna Stubenberg in 1935 . Ladislaus inherited a factory for graphite and safes in Warsaw from his father , which was burned down by Polish freedom fighters in 1906. His wife then fled with her children to Störmede , Westphalia, where she lived until her death. In 1915, Tsar Nicholas II recognized the Spanish title and granted the family a baronate. From then on the family carried the name Baron Pilars de Pilar. Ladislaus is the great-grandfather of the artist Carol Pilars de Pilar and the soprano Josephine Pilars de Pilar .
job
Ladislaus wrote several books in Polish, German and French. He is the author of the books Tragedia , a hexameter epic about Napoleon , Symfonia Bałtyku (A Baltic Symphony) and Życie dla sztuki (The Art of Living), a drama about Emperor Augustus . In 1927 Ladislaus became vice president of the Shakespeare Association and was also vice president of the Writers' Union. He lived in Struga near Warsaw and taught literature at the University of Warsaw .
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| SURNAME | Pilars de Pilar, Ladislaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pilars de Pilar, Władysław (plS) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-German poet and industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opatówek , Congress Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1952 |
| Place of death | Chorzów , Poland |