Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński

Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński (Polish: [taˈdɛuʂ ʑɛˈliɲskʲi]; Russian: Фадде́й Фра́нцевич Зели́нский; 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.

Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński
Born	September 14, 1859 Skrzypczyńce, near Uman, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	May 8, 1944 (aged 84) Schondorf am Ammersee, Upper Bavaria

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 1933–1939 Zieliński was a member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature.[1]

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.[2] (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.[3]

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)
• Zieliński, Tadeusz. "Homeric psychology" (PDF).
• Zieliński, Tadeusz (1971) [1909]. Our debt to antiquity. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press. ISBN 978-0-8046-1205-0. LCCN 75113317. OCLC 109089.
• Zielinski, Thaddeus (1970) [1926]. The Religion of Ancient Greece: An Outline [from original in Polish: Religya starożytnej Grecji]. Translation by Noyes, George Rapall. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 978-0-8369-5222-3. LCCN 76107838. OCLC 61443. OCLC-number for the translated edition: OCLC 753279017

References

1. "Polska Akademia Literatury". Encyklopedia Onet.pl, Grupa Onet.pl SA. 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
2. Srebrny (1947 (2013)), p. 149.
3. Clark, Katerina (1995) Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard, pp. 291-2.

Further reading

• Barta, Peter I.; Larmour, David H. J.; Miller, Paul Allen (1996). Russian Literature and the Classics. Studies in Russian and European Literature. 1. Langhorne, PA: Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-3-7186-0605-4. OCLC 35157594.
• 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.