MichaÅ‚ BaÅ‚ucki, pseudonym Elpidon (September 29, 1837 in Kraków â€"
October 17, 1901 in Kraków), was a Polish playwright and poet.He
studied at Saint's Ann gymnasium in Cracow, and then at the
Jagiellonian University. He was an active member of a youth
organization that wanted to help Poles fighting the tsarist regime in
Russian occupied Poland, but he did not fight in the January Uprising.
He was sentenced to prison for conspiracy after being arrested at the
end of 1863.He debuted in 1861 with poems based on folklore motifs. In
his poems, he attacked Galician aristocrats and the middle class that
looked up to them.At the end of his life he suffered from neurosis and
depression and, after a virulently critical article written by Lucjan
Rydel, he committed suicide in BÅ‚onia Park.
October 17, 1901 in Kraków), was a Polish playwright and poet.He
studied at Saint's Ann gymnasium in Cracow, and then at the
Jagiellonian University. He was an active member of a youth
organization that wanted to help Poles fighting the tsarist regime in
Russian occupied Poland, but he did not fight in the January Uprising.
He was sentenced to prison for conspiracy after being arrested at the
end of 1863.He debuted in 1861 with poems based on folklore motifs. In
his poems, he attacked Galician aristocrats and the middle class that
looked up to them.At the end of his life he suffered from neurosis and
depression and, after a virulently critical article written by Lucjan
Rydel, he committed suicide in BÅ‚onia Park.
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