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WRITER

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński

1874 - 1941

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Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (21 December 1874 – 4 July 1941), better known by his pen name Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński or simply as Boy, was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish. He was a pediatrician and gynecologist by profession. A notable personality in the Young Poland movement of c. 1890 to 1918, Boy was the enfant terrible of the Polish literary scene in the first half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński has received more than 67,261 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński is the 4,063rd most popular writer (down from 4,059th in 2019), the 823rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 792nd in 2019) and the 105th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 4,063 out of 5,755Before him are Adam Naruszewicz, Andrei Mureșanu, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Thomas Nashe, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, and Juhan Liiv. After him are Fritz Reuter, Maximilian Harden, Milo Yiannopoulos, Marilynne Robinson, Siamanto, and Ricardo Palma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 139Before him are Charles Despiau, Manuel Machado, Frederic Clements, Penelope Delta, Albert Capellani, and José de Amézola y Aspizúa. After him are Jean Collas, Abraham Brill, Charles William Miller, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Steve Bloomer, and Dmitry Gulia. Among people deceased in 1941, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 132Before him are Alfred Pringsheim, Vilmos Aba-Novák, Milka Ternina, Sueo Ōe, Penelope Delta, and Louis Brandeis. After him are Lev Dovator, Tom Phillips, Yekaterina Zelenko, Marcus Hurley, Źmitrok Biadula, and Igor Severyanin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 823 out of 1,454Before him are Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909), Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870), Małgorzata Braunek (1947), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), and Jan Klemens Branicki (1689). After him are Józef Bilczewski (1860), Willibald Alexis (1798), Tomasz Stańko (1942), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Kazimierz Sabbat (1913), and Abraham Brill (1874).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński ranks 105Before him are Nathan Alterman (1910), Jan Kott (1914), Arkady Fiedler (1894), Arno Holz (1863), Anna Langfus (1920), and Bolesław Leśmian (1877). After him are Willibald Alexis (1798), Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616), Karl von Holtei (1798), Horst Bienek (1930), Marek Hłasko (1934), and Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621).