Author: MICKIEWICZ Adam
Title: Pisma poetyckie, 1-4 komplet.
- Place of publication: Warsaw
- Year of publication: 1937
- Publisher: J. Przeworski Publishing House
- Number of pages: XVIII, 396; 362, [3]; 302, [3]; 359, [1].
- Illustrations, maps: portrait of the author in vol. 1
- Size: 20.5 cm
- Binding: hard cloth on faces embossed bust of Mickiewicz and embossed. Titulature in gold, signboard on spine
- Condition: rubbing/soiling of binding, volume 3 spine and front cover almost loose, private stamps of previous owner Witold Habdank-Kossowski
- ISBN: ---
Description:
Collected edition of the works of Adam Mickiewicz. Vol. 1: Ballads and romances, sonnets, Crimean Sonnets, miscellaneous poems; vol. 2: Zywila, Grażyna, Konrad Wallenrod, Giaur, Books of the Polish Nation and Polish Pilgrimage, Dramatic Fragments; vol. 3: Dziady; vol. 4: Pan Tadeusz.
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Witold Habdank-Kossowski (1894-1954) - Polish educator and poet, first director of the first high school in Stalowa Wola (now the Commission of National Education High School).
After the outbreak of World War I, he joined the Polish Legions, from where he was sent to an Austrian prison. He was awarded the Cross of Valor. He graduated from the University of Lviv and became a teacher of Polish, German, mathematics and stage design at the 11th Jan and Andrzej Śniadecki State Gymnasium in Lviv. He later taught at the Teachers' Seminary and other Lviv gymnasiums.
In 1938, he became director of the High School and Middle School in Stalowa Wola. He wanted to create modern facilities, but after the outbreak of war he was thrown out of his apartment next to the school by the Germans and settled in Plawo (now a Stalowa Wola neighborhood). He became an employee of the Lubomirski castle in Charzewice (now the Regional Museum is located there), where he conducted secret teaching at the high school level. He was chairman of the Examination Commission in Stalowa Wola.
At the end of the war, he reorganized the Stalowa Wola High School in the common school building and took charge of the renovation of the former gymnasium. In 1947, for political reasons, he moved with his wife to Charzewice (now a settlement of Stalowa Wola) and took a job at the Administrative and Economic High School in Rozwadów.
He was buried in the Rozwadow parish cemetery (grave location G/14/11). His students funded a memorial plaque, which is located next to his tombstone.
Witold's brother, Tadeusz Kossowski, published a book, Life and Works of Witold Habdank-Kossowski, in 1999. (wikipedia)
