Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (better known by his pseudonym, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński; December 21, 1874 – July 4, 1941) was a Polish gynecologist, writer, poet, critic—above all, translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish. A notable personality in the Young Poland movement, Boy was the enfant terrible of the Polish literary scene in the first half of the 20th century. Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (of the Ciołek coat-of-arms) was... more

Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (better known by his pseudonym, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński; December 21, 1874 – July 4, 1941) was a Polish gynecologist, writer, poet, critic—above all, translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish. A notable personality in the Young Poland movement, Boy was the enfant terrible of the Polish literary scene in the first half of the 20th century. Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (of the Ciołek coat-of-arms) was born December 21, 1874, in Warsaw, to Wanda, née Grabowska, and Władysław Żeleński, a prominent composer and musician. A cousin of Tadeusz's was the notable Polish poet Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer. Since Warsaw was then under Russian rule, and education in Polish was forbidden, in 1892 Żeleński left for Kraków, in Austrian-ruled Galicia, where he enrolled at the Jagiellonian University medical school in Krakow. Completing his studies in 1900, Żeleński began medical practice as a pediatrician. In 1906 he opened a practice as a gynaecologist,... less