Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski

Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski (1885-1944), born in Rzeszów, the son of a physician and a pianist, studied piano at the conservatoires of Lviv, Kraków and Leipzig, then music and philosophy in Brussels; a broken hand made him give up a career as a virtuoso. Enlisted in the legions in August 1914, aide-de-camp to Józef Piłsudski and chronicler of the 1st Brigade, he was from 1933 to 1939 secretary general of the Polish Academy of Literature. He stayed in occupied Warsaw, was wounded on 6 August 1944 during the uprising, and died two days later.

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• NovelGenerał BarczJuliusz Kaden-Bandrowski · 1923not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain