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Stefan Napierski, actually Stefan Marek Eiger (born 15 March 1899 in Warsaw, died 2 April 1940 in Palmiry) was a Polish poet of Jewish origin, translator and essayist, in the years 1938–1939 publisher of the bimonthly Ateneum [pl].

Stefan Napierski
Born	Stefan Marek Eiger 15 March 1899 Warszawa
Died	2 April 1940 Palmiry
Occupation	Poet, translator, essayist, publisher
Spouse	Irena Tuwim (in 1922-1935)
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Life

Stefan Napierski was born to Bolesław Eiger, a wealthy Jewish entrepreneur and Jadwiga Diana Eiger née Silberstein, daughter of Markus Silberstein.[1] He had an older sister, Maria Eiger-Kamińska (1893-1983), communist activist, deputy member of central committee of Communist Party of Poland (1930–1932), and two younger brothers: Kazimierz and Zdzisław. As a young man, Napierski converted to Roman Catholicism and took a Polish-sounding nom-de-plume. Despite being gay (the fact was an open secret of literary circles), he was married to Irena Tuwim in the years 1922–1935.[2]

Napierski was mostly known as a translator and literary critic, and his self-published works were not as well regarded then.[2] He was associated with literary circles such as Skamander group, despite not strictly belonging to them.[2] In the years 1938–1939 he was a publisher and editor-in-chief of the bimonthly Ateneum.[3] Thanks to Napierski's intercession, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz was given the position of the secretary of the Marshal of the Sejm.[2]

Following the invasion of Poland, Napierski was arrested by the Germans. Taken from Pawiak prison,[4] he was shot in the Palmiry massacre along a group of significant representatives of the Polish intelligentsia living in Warsaw.

Selected works

• List do przyjaciela (Letter to a Friend) (1928)[5]
• Pusta ulica (Empty Street) (1931)
• Od Baudelaire’a do nadrealistów (From Baudelaire to Surrealists) (1933)[6]
• Rozmowa z cieniem (Talk with a Shadow)(1933)[7]
• Elegie (Elegias) (1937)
• Próby (Trials) (1937)[8]
• translations: 75 poematów, Walt Whitman (75 poems of Walt Whitman); collections Liryka niemiecka i Poeci niemieccy (German Lyrics and German Poets); translations of works by Comte de Lautréamont and Max Jacob; Na Zachodzie bez zmian (All Quiet on the Western Front) (1930)

References

External links

• Works of Stefan Napierski in Polona.pl (pl)

На других языках

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[de] Stefan Napierski

Stefan Napierski, eigentlich Stefan Marek Eiger (geboren 15. März 1899 in Warschau; gestorben 2. April 1940 in Palmiry bei Warschau) war ein polnischer Dichter, Übersetzer und Essayist jüdischer Herkunft.

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