Teodor de Wyzewa
Téodor de Wyzewa , born as Teodor Wyżewski (born September 12, 1862 in Podolia , Russian Empire , † April 7, 1917 in Paris ), was a Polish writer , critic and translator born in the Russian Empire .
In 1869 he came to France and became one of the leading representatives of Polish symbolism .
With Édouard Dujardin he founded La Revue Wagnérienne in 1885 , and in 1901 the Société Mozart with Adolphe Boschot and Georges de Saint-Foix . He was a regular columnist on European literature and music for the magazines Revue des Deux Mondes and Le Temps, among others . His translation of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea into contemporary French made the work widespread.
He was married to Marguerite Terlinden, the daughter of the Belgian painter Félix Terlinden . Her nephew was the art critic and historian Pierre Francastel .
literature
- France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8 .
- Dirk Pförtner : Teodor de Wyzewa as literary critic of the Revue Indépendante: a contribution to the history of the novel at the end of the 19th century ( online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wyzewa, Teodor de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wyzewa, Téodor de; Wyżewski, Teodor (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer, critic and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Podolia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1917 |
| Place of death | Paris |