Zygmunt Szweykowski


Zygmunt Szweykowski was a historian of Polish literature who specialized in 19th-century Polish prose.

Life

In 1932-39, Szweykowski held a professorship at the Free Polish University in Warsaw and Łódź.
During the World War II Nazi occupation of Poland, he participated, at the risk of his life, in underground university teaching in Warsaw.
From 1946 he held a chair at Poznań University. In 1950 he was inducted into the Polish Academy of Learning, and in 1951 into the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Szweykowski studied the 19th-century Polish novel. His books in this field included Powieści historyczne Henryka Rzewuskiego and Trylogia Sienkiewicza.
His specialty, however, was the writings of Bolesław Prus. His books on Prus include Tworczość Bolesława Prusa and Nie tylko o Prusie: szkice.

Beginning in 1948, Szweykowski produced monumental editions of Prus' collected Pisma. He also edited Krystyna Tokarzówna's and Stanisław Fita's exhaustive Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: Kalendarz życia i twórczości, Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969.

Works