Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński

Polish philolgist

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1859

Place of Birth: Skrypchyntsi, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 08-May-1944

Profession: historian, translator, university teacher, art historian, classical scholar, archaeologist, classical philologist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński

  • Tadeusz Stefan Zielinski (Polish: [ta'd?u? ??'li?sk?i]; Russian: ?????´? ???´?????? ????´?????; near Uman, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire, September 14, 1859 – May 8, 1944, Schondorf, Upper Bavaria) was a prominent Polish classical philologist, historian, translator of Sophocles, Euripides and other classical authors into Russian. 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), then at Warsaw University for 17 years (1922–1939) in the interwar Poland, and recipient of honorary doctorates from the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1930), and twelve western European universities.
  • Between 1933–1939 Zielinski was a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature.Although Zielinski 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 was his natural son.

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