Exlibris of Tadeusz Kudlinski. Measures 7.6 x 10.5 cm.
Tadeusz Kudlinski (1898 - 1990) - Polish theater critic and prose writer associated with Krakow. Son of Ignacy and Maria Kazimiera née Wdowek. He began his education in 1905 at the four-class Exercise School of the c.k. Male Teachers' Seminary in Cracow. He then studied at the King Jan III Sobieski Gymnasium in Cracow. On April 18, 1916, at the Cavalry Cadet School in Mödling, he passed the substitute matriculation exam (he passed the gymnasium matriculation exam on February 15, 1917 in Cracow). He was then sent to the Artillery Officers' School in Simmering near Vienna. During World War I, on April 15, 1916, he was mobilized to the Austrian Army and fought on the Austro-Hungarian and Italian-Austrian fronts. He took part in the Polish-Bolshevik war. Demobilized on July 19, 1922 with the rank of lieutenant. He took up a job at the Jagiellonian Library, and from December 1922 studied law at the Jagiellonian University - on November 9, 1923 he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University. During the interwar period, from 1931, he published in "Gazeta Literacka". During the Nazi occupation, he was active in the underground organization "Union," and on January 16, 1944 was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Montelupich Prison (released on April 5, 1944). During the Stalinist period he was repressed and imprisoned from 1949 to 1955 for his political beliefs. After 1955, he published in Tygodnik Powszechny. He wrote reviews of theatrical performances. He left rich archives, concerning theatrical life in Poland.
