Karol Hubert Rostworowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karol Hubert Rostworowski

Polish writer and musician

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1877

Place of Birth: Rybna, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1938

Profession: poet, musician, journalist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Karol Hubert Rostworowski (3 November 1877 – 4 February 1938) was a Polish playwright, poet and musician, born to a family of local gentry.
He is remembered for his opposition to totalitarianism and for fatalistic works inspired by Catholic morality.Rostworowski was born in Rybna in southern Poland.
He studied agriculture in Halle, but abandoned it in 1900.
He began studying piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1901, and moved to Berlin to study philosophy six years later.
He returned to Poland in 1908 and settled in Czarkowy on the Nida.
During World War I he moved to Kraków and became a member of National Democracy, publishing in Glos Narodu beginning in 1920.
In 1933 he was chosen to join the Polish Academy of Literature, but resigned his membership in 1937 in protest against the change of government.
Between 1934 and 1937 he had served as a councillor in the Kraków municipal government on the platform of the National Party.
He died in Kraków.