Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński

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Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński
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Born	(1859-09-14)September 14, 1859 Skrzypczyńce, near Uman, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	Schondorf am Ammersee, Upper Bavaria

Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński (Polish: [taˈdɛ.uʐ ʑɛˈlij̃skʲi]; Russian: Фадде́й Фра́нцевич Зели́нский; September 14, 1859 – May 8, 1944) was a prominent Polish classical philologist, historian, translator of Sophocles, Euripides and other classical authors into Russian.

Life and career

He was born on 14 September 1859 in Skrzypczyńce, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) to father Franciszek and mother Ludwika (née Grudzińska). Between 1869–1876 he attended secondary school in Saint Petersburg and subsequently in the years 1876–1881 he studied in Leipzig, Munich and Vienna. He was author of works on the history of ancient Greek culture and religion, classical education, and popularization of classical studies (published largely in Russian and German).

He was professor at the University of St. Petersburg (1890–1922), and after Polish independence at Warsaw University for 17 years (1922–1939) during the interwar period. He was the recipient of honorary doctorates from the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1930), and twelve western European universities. Between 1933 and 1939 Zieliński was a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature.

Although Zieliński was active in many areas of classical scholarship, one of the studies for which he is best known in the west is his investigation of the prose rhythm of Cicero, published in 1904 and which is still often referred to today. (See Clausula (rhetoric)).

His daughter became wife of Prof. Vladimir Beneshevich, executed by the Soviet regime in 1938. Adrian Piotrovsky, his natural son, was arrested by the NKVD in November 1937 and executed.

Works

• Cicero im Wandel der Jahrhunderte. (Leipzig 1897, 2nd ed. 1908)
• Das Clauselgesetz in Ciceros Reden. Grundzüge einer oratorischen Rhythmik (1904)
• Der Constructive Rhythmus in Ciceros Reden. Der oratorischen Rhythmik zweiter Teil (1913)
• Rzym i jego religia (1920, Polish) OCLC 119328185
• Chrześcijaństwo starożytne a filozofia rzymska (1921, Polish)
• Grecja. Budownictwo, plastyka, krajobraz (1923, Polish)
• Literatura starożytnej Grecji epoki niepodległości (1923, Polish)
• Rozwój moralności w świecie starożytnym od Homera do czasów Chrystusa (1927, Polish)
• Filheleńskie poematy Byrona (1928, Polish)
• Kleopatra (1929, Polish)
• OCLC-number for the translated edition: OCLC 753279017

Further reading

• Srebrny, Stefan (1947 (2013)) Tadeusz Zieliński (1859-1944). (English translation of Polish original; contains photograph.)
• R. Zaborowski, "Tadeusz Zieliński (1859-1944) - sa vie et son œuvre." In: Annales du Centre Scientifique à Paris de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences 12, 2009, pp. 207–222.