Waclaw Korabiewicz
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Wacław Korabiewicz was a Polish reporter, poet
, traveler, collector of ethnographic exhibits.
Son of Anthony and Stephanie Korabiewicz Matusewicz. During his childhood he lived in St. Petersburg and the family estate in Lithuania
, belonging to his family.
In the years 1927–1932 he studied medicine
and ethnography
at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius
. During his studies, he was co-founder and member of the Academic Club Vagabonds Vilnius (as he writes in his books, some of Czeslaw Milosz
, because of high growth has been called the "mile"). Also assumed known. "Section Original Creativity '(STO) at the Circle Polonists university. He made his debut in the journal "Redoubt" (Vilnius 1925 ), his poems printed in various publications of poetry (including STO, Vilnius 1928, a stick in the sky, Vilnius, 1929) and magazines (e.g., "Alma Mater Vilnensis).
In 1930, he traveled by canoe to Turkey
and Greece
. After graduation, he worked as a doctor at the National Maritime Academy in Gdynia
. In the years 1931–1939 he was a ship's doctor on " Dar Pomerania, sharing in his voyages. In 1934 onwards, together with his first wife, Janina M. Haazówną canoe, he traveled to India
. After the outbreak of World War II
he was interned in Stockholm
together with the crew of the Dar Pomerania. Later, he worked on the ship MS "Pilsudski", then lived in London
, where he was a founder of Circle m in Soldier Care. Then, in Sao Paulo
and Rio de Janeiro
, where he organized help for Polish prisoners of war. In 1942, he was a participant in the expedition into the Brazil
ian jungle. Since 1943, he stayed in Africa
, as a delegate of the Polish Government in London, to 1946, then in Lusaka
, where the arm of the Ministry of Social Welfare held the custody of Polish prisoners in the camps of Northern Rhodesia
. Then, in Dar es Salaam
, Tanzania
(Tanganyika
). He worked as a deputy curator of the "King George Vth Memorial Museum, conducting research into folklore of the British territories in Africa and Mozambique
and was also a physician of a local hospital. In 1954, after sending a number of exhibits to the Polish Museum of Folk Culture in Młociny, he was expelled from Lake Tanganyika. He lived then in London, in the years 1954 - 1956 in Ethiopia
, where he worked as a doctor.
In 1958, he returned to Poland. From 1959 to 1961, the establishment of epidemiological Ghana
. Then, in Warsaw. In 1963 and 1976, he forwarded to the State Museum exhibits Etnograficznemu ECR National Museum in Warsaw. He organized exhibitions devoted to their collections gathered by African art
(including the exhibition "Masqual - Cross of Ethiopia", National Museum, Warsaw, 1966). He traveled widely in research to Africa and countries of the Middle East
. He lived in Warsaw Natolin
.
After his death, the casket containing the ashes had been dumped in the Baltic Sea
.
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...
, traveler, collector of ethnographic exhibits.
Son of Anthony and Stephanie Korabiewicz Matusewicz. During his childhood he lived in St. Petersburg and the family estate in Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
, belonging to his family.
In the years 1927–1932 he studied medicine
Medicine
Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
and ethnography
Ethnography
Ethnography is a qualitative method aimed to learn and understand cultural phenomena which reflect the knowledge and system of meanings guiding the life of a cultural group...
at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius
Vilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
. During his studies, he was co-founder and member of the Academic Club Vagabonds Vilnius (as he writes in his books, some of Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin and subsequent American citizenship. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. He defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book The Captive Mind is a classic of...
, because of high growth has been called the "mile"). Also assumed known. "Section Original Creativity '(STO) at the Circle Polonists university. He made his debut in the journal "Redoubt" (Vilnius 1925 ), his poems printed in various publications of poetry (including STO, Vilnius 1928, a stick in the sky, Vilnius, 1929) and magazines (e.g., "Alma Mater Vilnensis).
In 1930, he traveled by canoe to Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
and Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. After graduation, he worked as a doctor at the National Maritime Academy in Gdynia
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together...
. In the years 1931–1939 he was a ship's doctor on " Dar Pomerania, sharing in his voyages. In 1934 onwards, together with his first wife, Janina M. Haazówną canoe, he traveled to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. After the outbreak of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
he was interned in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
together with the crew of the Dar Pomerania. Later, he worked on the ship MS "Pilsudski", then lived in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, where he was a founder of Circle m in Soldier Care. Then, in Sao Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
and Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, where he organized help for Polish prisoners of war. In 1942, he was a participant in the expedition into the Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian jungle. Since 1943, he stayed in Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, as a delegate of the Polish Government in London, to 1946, then in Lusaka
Lusaka
Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is located in the southern part of the central plateau, at an elevation of about 1,300 metres . It has a population of about 1.7 million . It is a commercial centre as well as the centre of government, and the four main highways of Zambia head...
, where the arm of the Ministry of Social Welfare held the custody of Polish prisoners in the camps of Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia was a territory in south central Africa, formed in 1911. It became independent in 1964 as Zambia.It was initially administered under charter by the British South Africa Company and formed by it in 1911 by amalgamating North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia...
. Then, in Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam , formerly Mzizima, is the largest city in Tanzania. It is also the country's richest city and a regionally important economic centre. Dar es Salaam is actually an administrative province within Tanzania, and consists of three local government areas or administrative districts: ...
, Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
(Tanganyika
Tanganyika
Tanganyika , later formally the Republic of Tanganyika, was a sovereign state in East Africa from 1961 to 1964. It was situated between the Indian Ocean and the African Great Lakes of Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika...
). He worked as a deputy curator of the "King George Vth Memorial Museum, conducting research into folklore of the British territories in Africa and Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
and was also a physician of a local hospital. In 1954, after sending a number of exhibits to the Polish Museum of Folk Culture in Młociny, he was expelled from Lake Tanganyika. He lived then in London, in the years 1954 - 1956 in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
, where he worked as a doctor.
In 1958, he returned to Poland. From 1959 to 1961, the establishment of epidemiological Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
. Then, in Warsaw. In 1963 and 1976, he forwarded to the State Museum exhibits Etnograficznemu ECR National Museum in Warsaw. He organized exhibitions devoted to their collections gathered by African art
African art
African art constitutes one of the most diverse legacies on earth. Though many casual observers tend to generalize "traditional" African art, the continent is full of people, societies, and civilizations, each with a unique visual special culture. The definition also includes the art of the African...
(including the exhibition "Masqual - Cross of Ethiopia", National Museum, Warsaw, 1966). He traveled widely in research to Africa and countries of the Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
. He lived in Warsaw Natolin
Natolin
Natolin is a historic park and nature reserve on the southern edge of Warsaw, Poland. "Natolin" is also the name of a neighborhood located to the west of the park — a part of Warsaw's southernmost Ursynów district....
.
After his death, the casket containing the ashes had been dumped in the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...
.
Creativity
- Kayaking the minarets (travel reportage; Home Books Military 1935, Common Knowledge 1959)
- Mato Grosso. From the notes of birds ejector (travel reportage, Horizon 1948, as Mato Grosso: Readers 1959, 1968, 1989, ISBN 83-07-0181-8-8 series: " From a sail ")
- Fairy tales for adults (poetry; Oficyna Poets and Painters, 1953)
- Kwaheri (travel reportage, Sparks 1958, 1960, 1965)
- Safari Ming. African journey (travel reportage, the reader 1959, Sparks 1963, 1973)
- Sail to jogów (travel reportage, Peoples Cooperative Publishing in 1960, Sport and Tourism 1984, ISBN 83-21-7242-9-9)
- Midimo. African Romance (novels, the reader 1961, 1963, 1983, ISBN 83-07-0090-3-0)
- Eskulap in Ethiopia (travel reportage, People's Cooperative Publishing in 1963, revised edition Fri: Sun in Ambach, Sparks 1970, Series: " Around the World ")
- Pets (stories for children; Our Books 1965, 1977, 1988, ISBN 83-10-0915-8-3)
- Boa-constrictor (a separate edition in one volume of short stories Pets: Movement 1966)
- Arts of Africa in Polish collections (photographs Zdzislaw Malek; Publisher Polonia 1966, edition of Language. English: African Article in Polish collections, Polonia Publishing House, 1966, edition of the Language. French: L'art de l'Afrique noire dans les collections polonais, Polonia 1966)
- Holy crocodile (story for children; Movement 1966)
- To Timbuktu (travel reportage, Sparks 1967; series " Around the World ")
- Kayaking in India (new development of two previously published books: Kayaking the minarets and sails for jogów; Sparks 1972; series " Around the World ")
- The Ethiopian Cross (album, Holy Trinity Catedral, Addis Ababa, 1973)
- Rhapsody of the head queen (poem; Publisher MON 1973, 1987 , ISBN 83-11-0738-1-3)
- I have caught life (autobiography, Sparks 1973, 1977, Series: " Hunters of sensation ")
- Traces of the amulet (the study; Arkady 1974)
- Cross Coptic and imitation: a collection of Wenceslas Korabiewicz - Le croix et son évolution Copt: Wacław Korabiewicz collection (by the catalog of the exhibition, the crowd. in French: Zsolt Kiss, the National Museum in Warsaw. Faras Gallery of Art in 1976)
- Good simba (travel reports, the choice of texts from books: Kwaheri, Midimo, Safari Ming, Eskulap in Ethiopia, the Sun in Ambach, to Timbuktu, I have caught life ; Sparks 1979; series: " Bilioteka fiction )
- Where an elephant and where Poland (diaries; Publisher MON 1980, ISBN 83-11-0649-4-6, 1983, ISBN 83-11-0649-4-6)
- Faith healer. Strange thing about drugs (popular sketches, Veritas 1982)
- Heart on his hands. Biographical story about Valerie Sikorzynie (Committee in memory of Valerie Sikorzyny, London 1984 , Publisher Mark Rożek 1997, ISBN 83-86-6083-5-8)
- Temptations (memories, Sparks 1986, ISBN 83-20-7083-4-6)
- Miracles without a miracle. Strange thing about drugs (People's Cooperative Publishing 1988, ISBN 83-20-5384-6-7, 1989, ISBN 83-20-5384-6-7)
- Other ways of Jesus. What the Church is silent (Quartet 1992 , edition under a different title: The mystery of youth and death of Jesus, Daybreak 1992 )
- Poems fashioned (poems, Key 1992, ISBN 83-90-0274-2-9)
- With the "Gift of Pomerania" in ... wilderness (short stories; Naval Academy in 1993, ISBN 83-90-0838-4-1)