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| | Boleslaw Prus (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Born Aleksander Glowacki, Boleslaw Prus fought in Poland's 1863 Uprising, the orphaned younger brother of an insurgent leader, Leon Glowacki. |
 | | Prus, as a disciple of August Comte's Positivist philosophy — although he was a talented writer, at first best known for his humorist writing — early on thought little of his journalistic and literary productions; hence he adopted the pen name "Prus," "Prus I" being his family coat-of-arms. |
 | | In time Prus adopted the French critic Hippolyte Taine's concept of the arts, including literature, as a second means, alongside the sciences, of studying reality; and as a sideline he turned his hand to penning short stories. |
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