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Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski (Polish pronunciation:[ˈjuljuʂˌkadɛmbanˈdrɔfskʲi]; 24 February 1885 – 8 August 1944) was a Polishjournalist andnovelist. Between 1933 and 1939 he was a secretary general of thePolish Academy of Literature (Polska Akademia Literatury) in theSecond Polish Republic.[1]
Born inRzeszów, Juliusz Kazimierz Kaden-Bandrowski studiedpiano atconservatories inLwów,Kraków andLeipzig. While studying atBrussels, he switched his interests tophilosophy. DuringWorld War I, he served as aide toJózef Piłsudski and aschronicler to theFirst Brigade of thePolish Legions.
In 1907 he had begun working as a correspondent for the Polish press. After World War I, he associated himself with theSkamander group of Polish experimental poets founded in 1918, and in 1933 joined the Polish Academy of Literature. DuringWorld War II, Kaden-Bandrowski declined to leave German-occupiedWarsaw, to which he had moved during theInterbellum. He participated in underground teaching and gave music lessons. He was arrested and interrogated by theGestapo. He died on 8 August 1944 inWarsaw, a week into theWarsaw Uprising.
His novels show insights and fidelity to facts;behaviorist andexpressionist elements; and combinations of different styles and literary techniques.
Kaden-Bandrowski was the son of Juliusz Marian Bandrowski and his wife, Helena,née Kaden. Juliusz's brother was Jerzy Bandrowski (1883–1940), a journalist, novelist andtranslator from English to Polish.
He was a member of thePolish Reformed Church. By his wife, Romana,née Szpak (1882–1962; she had a son, Kazimierz Lewiński, an engineer who graduated from the Paris Polytechnique, from her first marriage), Kaden-Bandrowski had twin sons: Andrzej (1920–43), aHome Armysecond lieutenant who died in action in Warsaw in June 1943; and Paweł (1920–44), a Home Armylieutenant who fought in theWarsaw Uprising and died in theCzerniaków neighborhood of Warsaw'sMokotów district on 15 September 1944.
Juliusz Kazimierz Kaden-Bandrowski and his sons are interred at Warsaw'sProtestant Reformed Cemetery.
