Michał Bałucki


Michał Bałucki, pseudonym Elpidon, was a Polish playwright and poet.

Biography

Bałucki was born on 29 September 1837 in Kraków. He studied at Saint's Ann gymnasium in Kraków, and then at the Jagiellonian University. He was an active member of a youth organization that wanted to help Poles fighting the tsarist regime in Russian occupied Poland, but he did not fight in the January Uprising. He was sentenced to prison for conspiracy after being arrested at the end of 1863.
He debuted in 1861 with poems based on folklore motifs. In his poems, he attacked Galician aristocrats and the middle class that looked up to them.
At the end of his life he suffered from neurosis and depression and, after a virulently critical article written by Lucjan Rydel, he committed suicide in Błonia Park in Kraków. He died on 17 October 1901.

Works

Novels:
  • 1864 Awakening
  • 1866 Elders and young
  • 1870 Glittering poverty
  • 1871 Jewess
  • 1872 It is about a piece of land
  • 1874 From a camp to a camp
  • 1875 White Negro
  • 1881 Lordly beggars
  • 1881 Kraków's images
  • 1885 In Jewish hands
  • 1887 The Mayor from Pipidówka
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