Wacław Berent

Wacław Berent (1873-1940), born in Warsaw, studied natural sciences in Munich and Zurich and obtained a doctorate in biology in 1895, before devoting himself entirely to literature. He lived in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, then in Warsaw from 1916. A contributor to the review Chimera and a translator of Nietzsche, Ibsen, Hamsun, Maupassant and Romain Rolland, he wrote historical and biographical narratives in his last years. A member of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1933, he died in Warsaw in November 1940, under the occupation.

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• NovelŻywe kamienieWacław Berent · 1918not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain