Jan Lorentowicz

Jan Lorentowicz was a Polish theatre director, literary critic, publicist, editor and book collector president of the Polish PEN Club and from 1938, an elected member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature.

Lorentowicz was born in Pabianice, in presentday central Poland, in 1868, five years after the opening of the Polish 1863 Uprising that was eventually suppressed by the Russian Imperial Army. His parents had moved to presentday central Poland from the old eastern Kresy borderlands, escaping poverty and oppression. Jan obtained his secondaryschool diploma at Pock by way of home schooling and soon went to France, where he lived until 1903 and studied at the Sorbonne.

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