Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (better known by his pen name,
Tadeusz Boy-Å»eleÅ„ski; 21 December 1874 â€" 4 July 1941) was a Polish
stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100
French literary classics into Polish. He was a pediatrician and
gynecologist by profession.A notable personality in the Young Poland
movement, Boy was the enfant terrible of the Polish literary scene in
the first half of the 20th century. He was murdered in July 1941 by
the Germans during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in what became known
as the massacre of Lviv professors.Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński
(of the Ciołek coat-of-arms) was born on 21 December 1874 in Warsaw,
to Wanda, née Grabowska, who was from a Frankist family,[1] and
Władysław Żeleński, a prominent composer and musician. Tadeusz's
cousin was the notable Polish neo-romantic poet Kazimierz
Przerwa-Tetmajer. Because higher education in Polish was forbidden in
Warsaw under Russian rule, in 1892 Żeleński left for Kraków, in
Austrian-ruled Galicia, where he enrolled at the Jagiellonian
University medical school.Completing his studies in 1900, Żeleński
began medical practice as a pediatrician. In 1906 he opened a practice
as a gynaecologist, which gave him financial freedom. The same year,
he co-organised the famous Zielony Balonik ("Green Balloon") cabaret,
which gathered notable personalities of Polish culture, including his
brother Edward and Jan August Kisielewski, Stanisław Kuczborski,
Witold Noskowski, Stanisław Sierosławski, Rudolf Starzewski, Edward
Leszczyński, Teofil Trzciński, Karol Frycz, Ludwik Puget, Kazimierz
Sichulski, Jan Skotnicki and Feliks Jasieński.
Tadeusz Boy-Å»eleÅ„ski; 21 December 1874 â€" 4 July 1941) was a Polish
stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100
French literary classics into Polish. He was a pediatrician and
gynecologist by profession.A notable personality in the Young Poland
movement, Boy was the enfant terrible of the Polish literary scene in
the first half of the 20th century. He was murdered in July 1941 by
the Germans during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in what became known
as the massacre of Lviv professors.Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński
(of the Ciołek coat-of-arms) was born on 21 December 1874 in Warsaw,
to Wanda, née Grabowska, who was from a Frankist family,[1] and
Władysław Żeleński, a prominent composer and musician. Tadeusz's
cousin was the notable Polish neo-romantic poet Kazimierz
Przerwa-Tetmajer. Because higher education in Polish was forbidden in
Warsaw under Russian rule, in 1892 Żeleński left for Kraków, in
Austrian-ruled Galicia, where he enrolled at the Jagiellonian
University medical school.Completing his studies in 1900, Żeleński
began medical practice as a pediatrician. In 1906 he opened a practice
as a gynaecologist, which gave him financial freedom. The same year,
he co-organised the famous Zielony Balonik ("Green Balloon") cabaret,
which gathered notable personalities of Polish culture, including his
brother Edward and Jan August Kisielewski, Stanisław Kuczborski,
Witold Noskowski, Stanisław Sierosławski, Rudolf Starzewski, Edward
Leszczyński, Teofil Trzciński, Karol Frycz, Ludwik Puget, Kazimierz
Sichulski, Jan Skotnicki and Feliks Jasieński.
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