Kazimierz Zdziechowski, also known under pseudonyms Władysław Zdora, Władysław Mouner, (1878–1942) was a Polish

Poland

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 landowner, prose writer

Prose

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, publicist

Publicist

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, literary critic and novelist. Brother of Marian Zdziechowski

Marian Zdziechowski

Marian Zdziechowski was a Polish philosopher, Slavist, publicist and cultural historian. Critic of fascist and communist totalitarianism. Representative of catastrophism and philosophical pessimism...

, Polish philologist and philosopher.

Biography

Zdziechowski was born on March 14, 1878 in Raków

Raków

Raków is a village in Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Raków. It lies approximately south-east of the regional capital Kielce...

, Belarus. He graduated law in university of Moscow

Moscow

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. Then, he managed family estate in Raków. Since 1896 he collaborated with press as a prose writer, publicist and literary critic. Zdziechowski was murdered on August 4, 1942 during the Second World War in the German

Germany

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 concentration camp Auschwitz.

Works

• Fuimus (1900) – socio-psychological novel
• Przemiany, vol. 1–2 (1906)
• Łuna, vol. 1–2 (1910)
• Opoka (1912)