Michał Bałucki

Michał Bałucki

Michał Bałucki (born September 29, 1837 in Kraków , † October 17, 1901 there ) was a Polish writer.

After attending the Barbara School and St. Anna High School, Bałucki first studied mathematics and physics, and later history and literature at the Jagiellonian University . Between 1857 and 1864 he belonged to a group of writers around Józef Szujski , Artur Grottger , Jan Matejko and Władysław Żeleński and made his debut as a poet himself in 1859. A mental illness interrupted his literary career and he worked for some time as a teacher in Częstochowa .

He was imprisoned in Austria from 1863 to 1864 for conspiratorial activity in Galicia . After his release he first went to Warsaw and then returned to Krakow. Here he published the women's magazine Kalina from 1867–68 and the weekly Kraj from 1869–1873 . After novels such Przebudzeni (1864), Młodzi i Starzy (1866) and Życie wśród ruin (1870), he lined up with nędze Błyszczące , Żydówka (1870) and his most important work Pan burmistrz for Pipidówki (1887) in the group of Polish positivists one . He also wrote poems, short stories and a regular column ( Tygodnik krakowski ) for Kraj magazine.

For his comedies, etc. a. Polowanie na męża (1869), Radcy pana radcy (1871), Emancypowana (1873), Dom otwarty (1883) and Grube ryby (1881), he was attacked by critics as a propagandist of a bourgeois ideology, his attitude was mocked as Bałucczyzna (Bałuckiism) . In 1901, Bałucki committed suicide in Kraków.

swell

• Wirtualna Biblioteka Literatury Polskiej - Michał Bałucki
• Stanley S. Sokol, Sharon F. Mrotek Kissane, Alfred L. Abramowicz: "The Polish Biographical Dictionary: Profiles of Nearly 900 Poles Who Have Made Lasting Contributions to World Civilization" , Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1992, ISBN 9780865162457 , p. 28

literature

• Bałucki Michael. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 47.

Web links

Commons : Michał Bałucki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Michał Bałucki in the catalog of the German National Library