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Wierzynski, Casimir
Poet, author. Born in Drohobocz, in the province of Lwow, Poland, on August 27, 1894. He made his university studies in Krakow and in Vienna, graduating from the College of Philosophy. In 1914 he took active part in the World War I as an officer of the Austrian Army, was taken prisoner by the Russians, and interned for three years in the city of Riazan. In 1918 he succeeded in escaping to Kiev, and from there to Warsaw. In 1919 he started his career as a poet and man of letters. He is an author of seven volumes of poems: "Spring and Wine," "Sparrows on the Roof," "The Great Dipper," "Love's Diary," "Olympian Laurels," "Conversation with the Jungle and Fanatical Songs." "The Great Dipper" won a prize offered by the Association of Polish Publishers in 1923, and his "Olympian Laurels" won the first literature prize at the Olympiad in Amsterdam in 1928. His poems have been translated into many languages, including Danish, German, French, Italian, Jewish, Swedish and English. Came to U.S. in 1939. While in America wrote a volume of verse "Roza Piatrow," a collection of Polish verse which was published in 1942. Residence: 101-07 Ocean Ave., Forest Hills, N. Y.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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