Jan Lechoń

Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University)

Dates

Born 13 Mar 1899
Died 8 Jun 1956

Places

Active in Poland; United States

Cultural Identities

LGBTQ

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Letter-writer/ Diarist
Literary Critic/ Historian

Resources

Lechoń's Works

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Jan Lechoń (pseudonym of Leszek Józef Serafimowicz) was born in Warsaw in 1899 into a middling gentry intelligentsia family. The second of three boys, he debuted as a poetic

Wunderkind

at the age of thirteen. By the time he enrolled to study Polish philology at Warsaw University in 1916, he was already the author of two collections of poetry and a one-act play that had been performed by three of Warsaw’s leading actors. During his university years, Lechoń collaborated with the journal

Pro arte et studio,

the germ of interwar Poland’s most renowned poetic group, Skamander, which included Julian Tuwim, Kazimierz Wierzyński, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Antoni Słonimski, and Stanisław Baliński. In 1918 he helped found the group’s immensely popular artistic cabaret “Pod Picadorem”…

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Citation: Koropeckyj, Roman. "Jan Lechoń". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 March 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13707, accessed 23 November 2024.]