Author
Stanisław Brzozowski 1878-1911

Born in the village of Maziarnia, near Chełm, on the 28th of June, 1878. In 1896 he commenced studies at the Faculty of Natural Science of the University of Warsaw, but was relegated from the academy after just one year for co-organizing an anti-Russian demonstration. In 1898 he was apprehended for a month during the tsarist police’s investigation concerning the Society of Popular Education. For the next three years – until January 1902 - he remained under constant surveillance. In 1900 he made his debut in the columns of “Przegląd Filozoficzny”. All the time he struggled with his ill health. Suffering from tuberculosis, he was treated in Otwock, and Zakopane, and also abroad. In 1907 he settled down in Florence, where his most important works were created. In 1908, on the grounds of the lists of collaborationists drawn up by a tsar’s secret agent, Brzozowski was accused of collaboration with the Okhrana (Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order). The writer denied any such revelations and insisted – unsuccessfully, though – on his name being cleared by a citizens’ jury. He died in Florence on the 30th of April, 1911. His major works include Filozofia czynu (1903), Płomienie (1908; a novel), Legenda Młodej Polski. Studia o strukturze duszy kulturalnej (1910), Idee. Wstęp do filozofii dojrzałości dziejowej (1910), and Głosy wśród nocy. Studia nad przesileniem romantycznym kultury europejskiej (1912).

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