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Jakub Kania

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Jakub Kania (July 11, 1872 in Stare Siołkowice near Opole - December 3, 1957 in Stare Siołkowice) – Polish poet and folk writer, educational and national activist. He published in Gazeta Opolska and Katolik. During World War I he fought in the Western front. After the war he took part in the III Silesian Uprising. He was a member of the Union of Poles in Germany and of a Polish-Catholic society "Oświata". [1]

Sources

  • Stanisław Pigoń, Na drogach kultury ludowej, Warszawa 1974.
  • Jakub Kania

Notes

  1. ^ Zbigniew Zielonka, Geografia życia literackiego polskiego kręgu kulturowego na Śląsku, Słupsk 1994, p. 159-160.