Teodor Jeske-Choiński
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Teodor Jeske-Choiński | |
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| Born | February 27, 1854 Pleschen, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | April 14, 1920 (aged 66) Warsaw, Second Polish Republic |
| Notable works | Tiara i korona |
| Spouse | Ludmiła Jeske-Choińska |
| Known for | Espousing the Judeopolonia conspiracy theory |
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Teodor Jeske-Choiński (ru: Еске-Хоинский, Теодор. 27 February 1854 – 14 April 1920) was a Polish intellectual, writer, historian and literary critic.
He was born to a bureaucrat, Fryderyk Jeske-Choiński, of the Abdank coat of arms, and Franciszka née Choińska. Some sources suggest that the Jeske-Choiński family was of German origin and later Polonized.[1][2]
He was a friend, as well as an opponent, of Henryk Sienkiewicz. Whilst Sienkiewicz's novels were focused on Polish history, Jeske-Choiński’s looked at the broader European context. In 1900 he published Tiara i korona, a novel about the dispute between the Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII.[3]
Jeske-Choiński was actively engaged in ideological debates with Warsaw's positivists, who opposed the legacy of romanticism and sought to reshape Poland's national priorities through education and press control. He viewed their program as an attempt to impose a rigid intellectual hierarchy, while he himself was critical of their pragmatism and rejection of revolutionary aspirations.[4]
Joanna Michlic named him "one of the leading theorists and exponents of antisemitism in Poland".[5] In 1951, the communist censors completely banned all of his books, resulting in Jeske-Choiński being largely forgotten amongst the Polish public.
References
[edit]- ^ Kowaliszyn, Franciszek (1870-1914) Red (1890-03-02). Goniec : dziennik dla wszystkich illustrowany. 1890, nr 56. Biblioteka Jagiellońska. Franciszek Kowaliszyn;Drukarnia Władysława Albina Szyjkowskiego.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Еске-Хоинский, Теодор", Википедия (in Russian), 2025-03-05, retrieved 2025-03-09
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- ^ Blejwas, Stanislaus A. (1984). Realism in Polish politics: Warsaw positivism and national survival in nineteenth century Poland. Yale Russian and East European publications. New Haven : Columbus, Ohio: Yale Concilium on International and Area Studies ; Distributed by Slavica Publishers. ISBN 978-0-936586-05-2.
- ^ Joanna Beata Michlic, Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present, University of Nebraska Press 2006, str. 54-56
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