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In the first days of August 1914, as the three entities of partitioned Poland—Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary were entering the First World War, Jerzy Żuławski made the only decision he felt reflected his principles and joined Piłsudski's Legions to fight for the cause of regaining Polish independence.
- Jerzy Żuławski, 14 July 1874, Lipowiec
- 9 August 1915 (aged 41), Dębica
- Polish
- University of Bern
In 1901 Żuławski moved to Zakopane in the Polish Tatra mountains. There, he was a co-founder of the Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue, and co-editor of Zakopane. During World War I he fought in the Polish Legions and was co-editor of a Legion-run magazine Do Broni (editor’s translation: To Arms).
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How do NASA, mountaineering, George Clooney and colonialism all connect to the roots of Polish science-fiction? Culture.pl’s former English section head Adam Żuławski looks back at the life of his grandfather, his family tree, and the history of Polish sci-fi to weave an intimate and intricate tapestry of answers for you.
Żuławski's father had been an insurgent in the 1863 January Uprising, and Jerzy himself died in World War I as a soldier of the Polish Legions. The intellectual influence is reflected in his many patriotic poems and a close engagement with Polish Romantic literature.
- Łukasz Wodzyński
- 2018
Dec 30, 2022 · The poster “Poland – First to Fight” refers to the most important events in the country’s history – World War II and the defense against Nazi Germany’s invasion in 1939. Marek Zulawski created the poster around 1940. In the foreground, it shows a battered Polish flag flying in the wind.
Dec 13, 2022 · Jerzy uawski (j uwafski 14 July 1874 9 August 1915) was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and nationalist whose bestknown work is the sciencefiction epic, Trylogia Ksiycowa (The Lunar Trilogy), written between 1901 and 1911.
Jul 19, 2016 · His original intention was to adapt the first novel in a science-fiction trilogy written in 1903 by his great-uncle Jerzy Zuławski. The story involves a group of astronauts from Earth who crash on a distant planet resembling our own; while some are killed, the survivors have children and found a new race of humans.
