“I grew up under the influence of Spencerian evolutionary philosophy and heeded its counsels, not those of Idealist or Comtean philosophy.”
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Bolesław Prus
Aleksander Głowacki, better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus, was a Polish journalist, novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, and a distinctive voice in world literature.
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culture · Polish novelist (1847–1912) · journalist · philosopher · writer · literary critic · prose writer · short story writer · novelist · opinion journalist · also Bolesław Prus, Boleslaw Prus, Aleksander Głowacki, Prus
Born 20 August 1847 · Died 19 May 1912 · Q144439
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W jego wyobraźni ludzkość przedstawiała się jako zbiór szarych kamieni, między którymi raz na tysiąc, jeżeli nie rzadziej, trafiał się klejnot. Zaś ponad tymi chłodnymi i bezświetlnymi bytami ukazywały się istoty nadzwyczajne, podobne do zapalonych lamp, które szarym kamieniom nadają fizjognomię, a klejnotom – blask, barwę i przezroczystość.
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 3 entries
warszawa.naszemiasto: Bolesław Prus
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PolskieRadio: Lalka - Bolesław Prus
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PolskieRadio: Faraon - Bolesław Prus
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2022· 1 entry
The Times of Israel: Bolesław Prus And The Jews
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2017· 1 entry
Wyborcza: Bolesław Prus. Kim pan był, panie Głowacki?
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2014· 2 entries
culture.pl: Short Stories - Bolesław Prus
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culture.pl: Bolesław Prus, "Short Stories"
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2012· 1 entry
To mark the 100th anniversary of his death, the Polish mint produced three coins with individual designs: in gold, silver, and an aluminum-zinc alloy
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1977· 1 entry
By Anna Kamieńska-Łapińska; it is some 12 feet tall, on a minimal pedestal as befits an author who walked the same ground with his fellow men
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1937· 1 entry
Plaques were installed at Warsaw's Krakowskie Przedmieście 4 and 7, where the two chief characters of Prus' novel The Doll, Stanisław Wokulski and Ignacy Rzecki, respectively, were deduced to have resided
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1914· 1 entry
Scolded Joseph Conrad for writing his novels and stories in English, rather than in Polish for the benefit of Polish culture)
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1912· 6 entries
Died 1912-05-19.
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“Chłop, rzemieślnik, Żyd są po dawnemu pariasami, na których robimy składki w czasie powodzi, stagnacji albo judenhecy [pogromu], gdyż wtedy dopiero są interesującymi, gdy toną czy też łby sobie rozbijają.”
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“W jego wyobraźni ludzkość przedstawiała się jako zbiór szarych kamieni, między którymi raz na tysiąc, jeżeli nie rzadziej, trafiał się klejnot. Zaś ponad tymi chłodnymi i bezświetlnymi bytami ukazywały się istoty nadzwyczajne, podobne do zapalonych lamp, które szarym kamieniom nadają fizjognomię, a klejnotom – blask, barwę i przezroczystość.”
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“Opis: o filtrze do wody, który wynalazł Polak.”
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“Opis: o kamienicznikach warszawskich.”
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“Od przejścia słupów, od zajęcia miejsca w pruskiej kolei żelaznej zaczyna się wyzysk, oszukaństwa, krzywdzenie na wszelkie sposoby naszych biednych emigrantów. A jednak pomimo, że tak straszne warunki, wśród nędzy i upokorzeń, jeszcze tam zarabiają więcej aniżeli w ojczyźnie.”
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1911· 1 entry
And 1912, the novel had barely begun serialization in the Illustrated Weekly when its composition was cut short by Prus's death
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1908· 1 entry
Prus serialized, in the Warsaw Tygodnik Ilustrowany (Illustrated Weekly), his novel Dzieci (Children), depicting the young revolutionaries, terrorists and anarchists of the day – an uncharacteristically humorless work
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1906· 2 entries
Aged 59, Prus had a son, Jan Bogusz Sacewicz
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“Opis: w zdjętym przez cenzurę w 1906 roku felietonie.”
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1905· 1 entry
When Imperial Russia experienced defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and Poles demanded autonomy and reforms
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1902· 1 entry
The editor of the Warsaw Kurier Codzienny (Daily Courier) had opined that, if Prus's writings had been well known abroad, he should have received one of the recently created Nobel Prizes
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1897· 1 entry
Was marked by special newspaper issues celebrating his 25 years as a journalist and fiction writer, and a portrait of him was commissioned from artist Antoni Kamieński
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1894· 1 entry
“Opis: w 1894, pisząc o epidemii cholery.”
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1888· 1 entry
When Prus was forty, that he wrote his first historical fiction, the stunning short story, "A Legend of Old Egypt
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1882· 1 entry
On the recommendation of an earlier editor-in-chief, the prophet of Polish Positivism, Aleksander Świętochowski, Prus succeeded to the editorship of the Warsaw daily Nowiny (News)
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1873· 1 entry
Prus delivered two public lectures which illustrate the breadth of his scientific interests: "On the Structure of the Universe", and "On Discoveries and Inventions
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1872· 3 entries
In Warsaw, aged 25, he settled into a 40-year journalistic career that focused on science, technology, education, and economic and cultural development – societal enterprises essential to the perseverance of a people who
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Embarked on a career as a newspaper columnist, while working several months at the Evans, Lilpop and Rau Machine and Agricultural Implement Works in Warsaw
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At the age of 25, he adopted for his newspaper columns and fiction the pen name "Prus" ("Prus I" was his family coat-of-arms), reserving his actual name, Aleksander Głowacki, for "serious" writing
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1869· 1 entry
Enrolled in the Forestry Department at the newly opened Agriculture and Forestry Institute in Puławy, a historic town where he had spent some of his childhood and which, 15 years later, was the setting for his strikin
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1868· 1 entry
Poverty forced him to break off his university studies
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1863· 1 entry
In the Polish 1863–65 Uprising; Bierce in 1864 in the American Civil War
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1862· 1 entry
Prus's brother, Leon, a teacher thirteen years his senior, took him to Siedlce, then to Kielce
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1856· 1 entry
Prus was orphaned by his father's death and, aged 9, began attending a Lublin primary school whose principal, Józef Skłodowski, grandfather of the future double Nobel laureate Maria Skłodowska-Curie, administered canings
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1850· 1 entry
When the future Bolesław Prus was three years old, his mother died; the child was placed in the care of his maternal grandmother, Marcjanna Trembińska of Puławy, and, four years later, in the care of his aunt, Domicela O
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1847· 2 entries
Born 1847-08-20.
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“s prose is often a poetic prose. His stories also often contain elements of fantasy or whimsy. A fair number originally appeared in New Year”
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1820· 1 entry
“with the greatest pleasure, I admit it—I was wrong!”
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