Last name: Głowacki
Name/names: Aleksander
Also known as: Bolesław Prus
Born: 20 August 1847 (Hrubieszów, Poland)
Died: 19 maj 1912 (Warsaw, Poland).
Bolesław Prus (right. Aleksander Głowacki) – He was born 20 VIII 1847 r. in Hrubieszów, died 19 V 1912 r. in Warsaw. He lost his parents early and grew up with relatives in Puławy, and then in Lublin. W 1861 r. He moved to Siedlce, and then to Kielce under the care of his brother, Leona. He took part in the January Uprising. He was wounded and was in the hospital, and later in a prison in Lublin. After the release, he graduated from the Junior High School in Lublin in 1866 r. and passed the exam at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Main School, but he did not finish and left her in 1868 r. He also studied at the Institute of Country and Forestry in Puławy, And after returning to Warsaw, he worked as a worker. However, he did not neglect self -education. He took part in many educational activities. W 1879 r. He became a member of the International Literary Society. W 1895 r. He went abroad. By Berlin, Dresden, Karlsbad, Nuremberg and Stuttgart reached Paris, where he returned to the country. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries he devoted himself to social work and was a very active activist. Debuted with correspondence in “Sunday courier” (1864) and humors in “Christmas courier” (1866). He created many novels and novels and dealt with journalism. He set cognitive tasks before the writer – in the field of discovering new human types, produced by current changes – and signaling important sociological processes. Later they appeared in his work: interest in a simple person, Faith in its moral value, A specific self -defense of the poor against the unfair social system and the ability to move the reader. His most famous songs are: Towel Annielka, Recurring wave, Barrel organ, Antek oraz powieści Doll, Institution, Emancipants and Pharaoh.