Bolesław Prus

Aleksander Głowacki (1847-1912), who wrote under the name Bolesław Prus, was born in Hrubieszów, the son of an estate steward, and lost his parents early. Enlisted at fifteen in the 1863 uprising, he was gravely wounded and then imprisoned in Lublin Castle, and was released because he was a minor. He studied mathematics in Warsaw and became a journalist. For decades he wrote columns in the Warsaw newspapers and was one of the voices of positivism, which advocated education and work rather than insurrection. Subject to an agoraphobia that is linked to his wounds, he died in Warsaw in 1912.

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• NovelThe DollLalkaBolesław Prus · 1890LiteraturePublic domain