Boles%C5%82aw Prus
Bolesaw Prus , born Aleksander Gowacki, is a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy and a distinctive voice in world literature.
Aleksander Gowacki was bornAugust 1847 in Hrubieszw, now in southeastern Poland, very near the presentday border with Ukraine. The town was then in the Russiancontrolled sector of partitioned Poland, known as the Congress Kingdom. Gowacki was the younger son of Antoni Gowacki, an estate steward at the village of abcze, in Hrubieszw County, and Apolonia Gowacka, ne Trembiska. In 1850, when the future Bolesaw Prus was three years old, his mother died the child was placed in the care of his maternal grandmother, Marcjanna Trembiska of Puawy, and, four years later, in the care of his aunt, Domicela Olszewska of Lublin. In 1856 Prus was orphaned by his fathers death. In 1862 Prus brother Leon, a teacher thirteen years his senior, took him to Siedlce, then to Kielce.
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