Tadeusz Micinski was an influential Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, gnostic and playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

, and was a forerunner of Expressionism

Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...

 and Surrealism

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....

. He is one of the writers of the Young Poland

Young Poland

Young Poland is a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the ideas of Positivism...

 period (Neoromanticism movement). His writings are strong influenced by Dark Romanticism

Dark romanticism

Dark Romanticism is a literary subgenre. It has been suggested that Dark Romantics present individuals as prone to sin and self-destruction, not as inherently possessing divinity and wisdom. G. R...

 and Romantic

Romanticism

Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...

 gothic fiction

Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story"...

. He was called by many a wizard poet and a worshipper of mysteries.

Life

He studied philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 at the University of Kraków, and was heavily influenced by Polish messianism

Messianism

Messianism is the belief in a messiah, a savior or redeemer. Many religions have a messiah concept, including the Jewish Messiah, the Christian Christ, the Muslim Mahdi and Isa , the Buddhist Maitreya, the Hindu Kalki and the Zoroastrian Saoshyant...

. His work consisted of both philosophical and mystical themes, the most well-known is the collection of poems W mroku gwiazd (In the Twilight of the Stars), released in 1902, and a 1906 play, Kniaź Patiomkin (Prince Potemkin).

In 1918 he was killed by rebellious villagemen in Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

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He was friends with the writer and painter Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and the composer Karol Szymanowski

Karol Szymanowski

Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...

, who composed music dedicated to him.

There is a street named by Tadeusz Miciński on Łódź settlement Teofilów

Teofilów

Teofilów may refer to the following places:*Teofilów, Gmina Drużbice in Łódź Voivodeship *Teofilów, Tomaszów Mazowiecki County in Łódź Voivodeship *Teofilów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship...

Works

His most popular works are:

• Łazarze - The Lazars (1896) - poem,
• Nauczycielka The Teacher (1896) - short story,
• W mroku gwiazd - In the Twilight of the Stars (1902) - poetry collection,
• Kniaź Patiomkin - Prince Potemkin (1906) - drama,
• Do źródeł duszy polskiej - To the origin of the Polish soul (1906) - article,
• W mrokach złotego pałacu, czyli Bazylissa Teofanu (1909) - drama,
• Nietota. Księga tajemna Tatr - Nietota. The Book of Tatra mystery (1910) - novel,
• Walka o Chrystusa - The Fight for Christ (1911) - article,
• Dęby czarnobylskie - The Oaks of Tchernobyl (1911) - short stories compilation,
• Xiądz Faust - Monk Faust (1913) - novel