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Jan Lorentowicz
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1868 – 1940
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Who was Jan Lorentowicz?
Jan Lorentowicz was a Polish theatre director, literary critic, publicist, editor and book collector; president of the Polish PEN Club; and from 1938, an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature.
In 1919, in celebration of Poland's return to independence after over a century of partitions, Lorentowicz published the most complete collected works of the poet Jan Kochanowski, who had laid the foundations for Polish literary language.
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- Born
- Mar 14, 1868
Pabianice - Also known as
- M. Chropieński
- Children
- Nationality
- Poland
- Died
- Jan 15, 1940
Warsaw
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on July 23, 2013
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