Karol Irzykowski

Karol Irzykowski (1873-1944), born in Błażkowa, near Jasło, into a noble family fallen on hard times, studied German philology in Lviv without being able to complete his studies. A stammerer since childhood, he soon gave up teaching and earned his living as a stenographer, in Lviv, in Kraków from 1908, then in Warsaw, where from 1919 to 1933 he headed the stenographic office of the Sejm. A critic and the author of the first Polish theory of cinema, he joined the Polish Academy of Literature in 1933. Wounded in the leg during the Warsaw Uprising, he died in the hospital at Żyrardów on 2 November 1944.

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• NovelPałubaKarol Irzykowski · 1903not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain