Stanislaw Vincenz

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Stanisław Vincenz (born November 30, 1888 in Słoboda Rungurska , Austria-Hungary , today in Kolomyja Rajon , Ukraine ; died January 28, 1971 in Lausanne , Switzerland ) was a Polish writer, philosopher and translator.

Life

Memorial plaque at the high school in Kolomyja

Stanisław Vincenz was a son of Zofia Zuzanna geb. Przybyłowska and Felix Vincenz, who came from an oil industrialist family in Galicia , some of which had roots in France. Stanisław Vincenz grew up in the Carpathian region, which was also inhabited by the Hutsuls, and attended the Polish classical grammar school founded in 1894 in the district town of Kolomyja . From 1906 he studied biology, law, Slavic studies, Sanskrit and philosophy at the University of Vienna . He did his military service in Vienna in 1911 and married Helena Loeventon in Odessa in 1912 . His second son, Andrzej de Vincenz (1922–2014), later renewed the “de” in the Francophone family name. Vincenz received his doctorate on July 15, 1914 in Vienna with the dissertation Hegel's Philosophy of Religion and its Influence on Feuerbach . He did not finish his habilitation project on Hegel in Poland and Russia after the documents were burned by the effects of the war. From 1915 to 1918 he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Galician-Bukovinian infantry regiment "Knights of Sorrows" No. 24 and was then also a soldier in the armed conflicts between Poland and Soviet Russia . At the beginning of the 1920s he was a member of the social democratic peasant party Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe "Wyzwolenie" . In 1922 he was editor of Nowe Czasy magazine in Lemberg .

After the end of the armed conflict, he lived as a freelance scientist and journalist in his home region in what is now the Polish Galicia, in the capital Warsaw, and he made trips in the region and to Western Europe. At the suggestion of his friend, the Swiss philosopher Rudolf Maria Holzapfel , who also came from Galicia, he brought out a collection of stories and folk tales of the Hutsuls from the Eastern Carpathians in Polish in 1936 : Na wysokiej połoninie - Prawdy starowieku (“Auf den Almen (on the high Willows) - Truths of the Old Days "). The further work on the subsequent volumes then essentially determined his scientific work.

After the outbreak of World War II, Eastern Poland was annexed to the Soviet Union in September 1939, in accordance with the agreements in the Hitler-Stalin Pact . Vincenz and his family managed to flee to Hungary only in May 1940 , where Polish refugees were tolerated. During his stay in the village of Verőce he was able to help persecuted Jews in Vienna and Budapest and was posthumously honored as Righteous Among the Nations together with his second wife Irena . When after the end of the Second World War he was threatened with resettlement in his now Ukrainian-Soviet homeland, he emigrated to France and lived there in the health resort Uriage-les-Bains , then in Grenoble and finally in the mountain village of La Combe-de-Lancey . In 1964 he moved to Switzerland, where, seriously ill, he continued to work on the other volumes of his Almen tetralogy and left behind a large amount of unprocessed materials and manuscripts, from which, among other things, an autobiographical script could be deduced.

In the 1980s, Vincenz's work was discovered by Hucul research. Scientific conferences and monographs dealt with his work. In 1992 a volume “Notes” was published from his estate.

Works (selection)

  • Well wysokiej połoninie. Pravda starowieku . Warsaw 1938 [On the alpine pastures. Truths of the Ancient Times, Volume 1]
    • On the high uplands. Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians . HC Stevens in Romanian. London 1955
  • Zwada . London, 1970 [Disput, Volume 2]
  • Listy z nieba . London 1974 (posthumous) [Letters from Heaven, Volume 3]
  • Barwinkowy wianek . London 1979 (posthumously) [Volume 4]
  • O książkach i czytaniu . Budapest, 1942
  • Dante and the folk myth . Dortmund lectures; Issue 54. Dortmund: Kulturamt d. City, 1962, 31 pages
  • Po stronie pamięci . Paris, 1965 [At the side of memory]
  • Dialogi z Sowietami . London, 1966 [dialogues with the Soviets]
posthumously
  • Tematy żydowskie . London, 1977 [Jewish Issues]
  • Z perspektywy podróży . Krakow, 1980 [From the perspective of a journey]
  • Po stronie dialogu . Warsaw, 1983
  • Powojenne perypetie Socratesa . Krakow, 1985 [Socrates' post-war vicissitudes]
  • Outopos. Zapiski z lat 1938-1944 . Breslau, 1992 [Notes from the estate]
  • Atlantyda. Pisma rozproszone z lat II wojny światowej . Warsaw, 1994
  • About ways of spreading Polish culture and literature . Translation of Winfried Lipscher. In: Marek Klecel: Poland between East and West. Polish essays of the 20th century. An anthology . Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​1995, pp. 289-309
  • Adam Mickiewicz: The poet and man , in: Bonifacy Miązek (ed.): Adam Mickiewicz: Life and work . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1998, pp. 281-297
  • In search of the Baal Shem Tov pigeon book and other stories from the Carpathian highlands by Hutsuls, Hasidim and Rachmanes . Translated from Polish by Herbert Ulrich. Lublin, 2005

literature

  • Renata Makarska: The room and its texts. Conceptualizations of the Hucul'ščyna in Central European literature of the 20th century. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59302-8 (Makarska refers to Vincenz.)
  • Mirosława Ołdakowska-Kuflowa: Stanisław Vincenz: pisarz, humanista, ore̜downik zbliżenia narodów; biografia . Lublin: Tow. Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2006
  • Jan Pieszczachowicz: Stanisław Vincenz - pisarz uniwersalnego dialogu . 2005
    • Jan Pieszczachowicz: Stanisław Vincenz - writer of a universal dialogue . Translated from Polish by Herbert Ulrich. Engelsdorfer Verlag, 2015 ISBN 978-3-95744-927-6
  • Mirosława Ołdakowska-Kuflowa (ed.): Stanisław Vincenz, humanista XX wieku . Lublin: Tow. Naukowe KUL, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrzej de Vincenz worked in Germany as a Slavist at the Universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen
  2. ^ Vincenz Family , at Yad Vashem
personal data
SURNAME Vincenz, Stanislaw
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincenz, Stanisław de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer, philosopher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Sloboda (Kolomyja) , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1971
Place of death Lausanne