Franciszek Ksawery Pruszyński (4 December 1907 – 13 June 1950) was a Polish journalist, publicist, writer and diplomat. He was one of the most active and operative of Polish newspaper reporters.
Franciszek Ksawery Pruszyński (4 December 1907 – 13 June 1950) was a Polish journalist, publicist, writer and diplomat. He was one of the most active and operative of Polish newspaper reporters.
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Biography He was born in Wolica Kierekieszyna–now in Ukraine–in Volhynia. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 his family settled in Kraków. A graduate of the Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie in 1927, he studied law at Jagiellonian University. He joined the organization Myśl Mocarstwowa (Imperial Thought). His works first appeared in Dzień Akademicki and Civitas Academica. He specialized in medieval German law, taught by professor Stanisław Estreicher. In 1929 he was deputy assistant to Estreicher. He travelled all over Europe contributing articles to the leading Polish papers. He joined the editorial board of the newspaper Czas from Kraków, first as a proofreader, then surveying the foreign press, and from 1930, author of a series of reports from Hungary. In 1932 he published his debut book, Sarajewo 1914, Szanghaj 1932, Gdańsk 193? (Sarajevo 1914, Shanghai 1932, Gdańsk 193?) about Gdańsk. In the 1930s he published in the magazine Bunt Młodych (Youth Revolt) and was a member of the young conservatives. He travelled in Palestine in 1933 reporting for the Vilnius weekly Słowo. His book on Palestine was published in October 1933, Palestyna po raz trzeci (Palestine for the Third Time). During the Spanish Civil War in 1936 he was a…
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Works available in English
Polish Invasion (London 1941, Edinburgh 2010) - about the mutual impact of Poles and Scots in wartime Scotland
Poland Fights Back (London 1941, New York 1944)
Russian Year (as Xavier Pruszyński, New York 1944) - about Russia
Adam Mickiewicz: The Life Story of the Greatest Polish Poet (1950) - about Adam Mickiewicz
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Works currently unavailable in English
Sarajewo 1914, Szanghaj 1932, Gdańsk 193? (1932) - about Gdańsk before the Second World War
Palestyna po raz trzeci (1933) - about Palestine
Podróż po Polsce (1937) - about Poland
W czerwonej Hiszpanii (1937) - about the Spanish Civil War
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Walczymy (1943)
Margrabia Wielopolski (1944) - about Aleksander Wielopolski
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Karabela z Meschedu (1948)
Opowieść o Mickiewiczu (1956) - about Adam Mickiewicz
Wybór pism publicystycznych (volumes 1–2, 1966) - a selection of articles about Poland, Europe and the USA
Wybór pism 1940-1945 (1989) - a selection of articles originally published in newspapers between 1940 and 1945
Publicystyka. Tom 1. 1931-1939. Niezadowoleni i entuzjaści (1990) - a selection of articles originally published in newspapers between 1931 and 1939
Publicystyka. Tom 2. 1940-1948. Powrót do Soplicowa (1990) - a selection of articles originally published in newspapers between 1940 and 1948
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Biographies
Zygmunt Ziątek, Ksawery Pruszyński; Warsaw, State Publishing Institute PIW, 1972