Czesław Kłak
Polish literary historian (born 1935)
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Czesław Stanisław Kłak (born 21 April 1935) is a literary historian.
Czesław Kłak | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 April 1935 |
| Citizenship | Polish |
| Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
| Occupation | Literary historian |
Biography
Kłak was born in Hadle Szklarskie near Przeworsk to a peasant family.[1] His younger sister Agnieszka was born in 1950. He completed his secondary education in 1952.[1] He graduated from Jagiellonian University (UJ) with a master's degree in Polish philology in 1956.[1]
He began his career as a Polish teacher in Jarosław, and then in 1961 became a librarian in Rzeszów.[1] He simultaneously edited the cultural supplement "Widnokrąg" for the newspaper "Nowiny Rzeszowskie".[1]
In November 1963 he became a faculty member in the Department of Polish Literature at the newly established Higher School of Education in Krakow (WSP).[1] In 1964 he became senior assistant to the Chair of Polish Literature and Language.[1]
He obtained a doctoral degree from WSP in 1969 with a dissertation titled Powieści historyczne Jana Zachariasiewicza (Jan Zachariasiewicz's Historical Novels) under the supervision of Wincenty Danek.[1]
His areas of research included nineteenth-century Polish literature and the work of Stanisław Pigoń.[1] In 1990 he obtained habilitation degree.[2] He supervised five doctoral dissertations.[2]
Books
- Polski Leonidas. Rzecz o legendzie historycznej i literackiej generała Józefa Sowińskiego. Warszawa: Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza. 1986.
- Romantyczne tematy i dylematy. Echa powstania listopadowego w literaturze, historiografii i publicystyce. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej w Rzeszowie. 1992.
- Stanisław Pigoń. Szkice do portretu. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej w Rzeszowie. 1993.
- Pisarze galicyjscy. Szkice literackie. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej w Rzeszowie. 1994.
- Dialog o dialogu. Marii Danilewicz Zielińskiej podzwonne. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. 2003.
- Pigoń. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. 2013.
Editions
- Wokół Stanisława Pigonia. Nad warsztatem naukowym i literackim Uczonego. Rzeszów: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. 1983.
- Literatura – język – kultura. Galicja i jej Dziedzictwo. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej w Rzeszowie. 1995. Co-edited with Marta Wyka.
Distinctions
- Gold Cross of Merit (1979)[1]
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta[1]
- Medal of the Commission of National Education[1]