Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar

Who was Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar?

Władysław Baron Pilars de Pilar was a Polish poet and a literature professor at the Warsaw University. He was a son of Edward Gustaw Pilars, an accountant in Adolf Gottlieb Fiedler's cloth factory, and Ewa Grzankowska. He also was descendant from the Spanish Marquess de Pilares, Zaragoza. Wladyslaw got married to Antonia Freiin von Oer, who was a courtlady of the princess of Mecklenburg - Antoinette, Tsar Nicholas II's cousin. Antonia Oer's father, Friedrich Reichsfreiherr von Oer, was chamberlain of prince Charles II. Isenburg-Birstein. Ladislaus and Antonia had three children: Eduard, Anoinette and Gabriel. His son Gabriel married 1935 Anna Herrin und Gräfin von Stubenberg.

Władysław Baron Pilars de Pilar graduated in engineering in Berlin and was also running a factory for safes in Warsaw, Kotzebue Street. He was a literature professor at the Warsaw University and the vice-president of the Poetry Association and the vice-president of the Shakespeare Association in Poland.

He was a poet, the author of Tragedia, a hexametric poem dedicated to Napoleon. The book, illustrated by Zygmunt Grabowski, was published in 1927. The poem was also translated into English, French and German. Other pieces by Władysław Pilars de Pilar include Symfonia Bałtyku, a poem written in Polish, French and English.