Stanislaw Baczyński
Stanisław Baczyński , with the pseudonym Adam Kersten (born May 5, 1890 in Lemberg ; † August 27, 1939 in Warsaw ), was a Polish writer , literary critic , publicist and literary historian , socialist , soldier of the Polish legions and army officer .
Life
Baczyński attended high school in Lviv and was a member of the underground socialist organization Promień during his school days . With a few political immigrants from the Kingdom of Poland , he published a magazine with anarcho-syndicalist tendencies in the underground from 1909 . After finishing school, he studied philosophy and polonistics at the University of Lviv . He published his articles from 1911 to 1916 in the magazines Pravda and Nowa Gazeta .
Shortly before the outbreak of World War I , he joined the Strzelec Rifle Association and was sent to Warsaw to recruit volunteers for the Polish legions . In October 1914 he was arrested by the tsarist authorities in Warsaw, escaped from prison and went to the Polish Legions of Piłsudskis , where he served on the staff of the 1st Uhlan Brigade. In Stokhod he was wounded and sent to Lviv. After his recovery he was sent to Warsaw in 1916 as part of the Polska Organizacja Wojskowa . There he taught literary history at grammar schools from 1917 to 1918 until he was drafted and fought on the Belarusian front in November 1918.
After the First World War he was transferred to the Polish General Staff in September 1919 and was head of the plebiscite department for Cieszyn Silesia , Spiš and Orava . He also fought in the Polish-Soviet War in the summer of 1920 . He was then sent to Upper Silesia in December 1920 to work in Polska Organizacja Wojskowa . There he was one of the organizers of the Third Silesian Uprising in 1921 .
From 1925 to 1927 he traveled via Paris to Greece , Turkey , Palestine and Egypt . After his return to Poland he co-founded the magazine Wiek XX in 1928 and after its closure published the monthly Europa from 1929 to 1930. From 1932 he worked in the Historical Military Office ( Wojskowe Biuro Historyczne ). He also gave lectures on contemporary Russian literature at the Research Institute for Eastern Europe in Vilnius from 1933 to 1937 . He worked with Lewy Tor magazine from 1935 to 1936.
Stanisław Baczyński was the father of the poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński . The son dedicated the poem Elegia to him , written after his father's death in August 1939. His is also remembered in other verses of the poet, among others. a. in Rodzicom and Deszcze .
Works
- Walka o wolną szkołę jako kwestia społeczna, 1911
- Wiszary , 1913
- Miecz i korona. Myśl o duszy ludzkiej, 1916
- History o szczęściu i cnocie. Grecja - Rzym, 1917
- Jakiej chcemy armii ?, 1917
- Kresy Wschodnie. Źródła i perspektywy sprawy rusińskiej w Galicji, 1917
- Wódz i naród. (Józef Piłsudski), 1917
- Adam Mickiewicz. Człowiek i poeta, 1918
- Juliusz Słowacki, 1918
- Literatura Polski porozbiorowej XIX i XX wieku, 1918–1919
- Zygmunt Krasiński, 1918
- Sztuka walcząca, 1923
- Literatura piękna Polski porozbiorowej (1794–1863), 1924
- Syty Praklet i głodny Prometeusz, 1924
- Losy romansu, 1927
- Nasi powieściopisarze. Characterystyki literackie, 1928
- Prawo sądu, 1930
- Literatura w ZSRR, 1932
- Powieść kryminalna, 1932
- Rzeczywistość i fikcja, 1939
- Pisma krytyczne, edited by Andrzej Kijowski , 1963
Translations
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton : Obrona niedorzeczności, pokory, romansu brukowego i innych rzeczy wzgardzonych, 1927
- Albert Gleizes : Posłannictwo twórcze człowieka w dziedzinie plastyki, 1927
- Nikolai Gogol : Portrait, 1927
literature
- Jadwiga Czachowska: Baczyński Stanisław . In: Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury . Tom pierwszy: A – B. Wydawnictwo Szkolne i Pedagogiczne Spółka Akcyjna, Warsaw 1994, ISBN 83-02-05445-3 , p. 71-73 .
- Jadwiga Czachowska: Baczyński Stanisław . In: Współcześni polscy pisarze i badacze literatury . Tom dziesiąty: Ż i uzupełnienia do tomów 1–9. Fundacja Akademia Humanistyczna, Warsaw 2007, ISBN 978-83-8934894-4 , p. 115 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baczyński, Stanisław |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bittner, Stanisław (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1939 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |