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].
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]
^Anna Augustyniak Irena Tuwim. Nie umarłam z miłości. Biografia, wyd. trzecia strona, Warszawa 2016, s. 79, 80.
^ abcdKaliściak, Tomasz (2011). Katastrofy odmieńców. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. pp. 181–228. OCLC775503633.ISBN9788322619944
^Gazda, Grzegorz (2008). Dwudziestolecie międzywojenne: słownik literatury polskiej. Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe, Wydawnictwo Słowo/Obraz Terytoria. ISBN978-83-7420-110-0.
^Władysław Bartoszewski, Warszawski pierścień śmierci 1939–1944, Warszawa 1970, s. 69, 77.
