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Jacek Baluch
Birth Date:1940 3, df=y
Birth Place:Kraków, Poland
Death Place:Kraków, Poland
Citizenship:Polish
Workplaces:Jagiellonian University
Alma Mater:Jagiellonian University
Thesis Year:1968
Children:three
Fields:Czech literature, versification, theory of translation
Resting Place:Salwator Cemetery

Jacek Bogdan Baluch (17 March 1940 – 3 July 2019) was a Polish scholar, writer, poet, translator and politician.

Life

Jacek Baluch was born on 17 March 1940 in Kraków. He studied Slavic philology at the Jagellonian University in Kraków and at Charles University in Prague. He was a Slavist, and in the first place a Bohemist. He took an M.A. in 1962, earned his doctor's degree in 1968 and obtained habilitation in 1982. Much later, in 2008, he was nominated a professor.[1] He had a wife and three children.

He died on 3 July 2019 in Kraków.[2]

Political activity

Baluch was very active in the Solidarity movement in the early eighties. Because of that, he was imprisoned at Załęże by Martial law. In the years 1990–1995 he was the ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Czechoslovakia and (after the secession of Slovakia) to the Czech Republic. He is said to play an important role in establishing cooperation in the Visegrád Group.[3] In 2015 he was awarded by the Czech government for his work for Polish-Czech good relations[4] with the prize Gratia Agis.[5]

Scholarly work

Baluch wrote many books and papers on Czech literature, especially about avant garde (poetismus in Czech) and fiction by Bohumil Hrabal. He has been a teacher of some generations of students in Kraków and Opole. His main interest were versification and the theory of translation.

Poetry and translations

Baluch was a writer and poet. He writes chiefly short pure nonsense poems, for example Limericks.[6] He also translated some books and poems from Czech into Polish. Among others, he translated and edited a book of Medieval Czech love poetry. He made a translation of the famous children's poem Lokomotywa (The Locomotive) by Julian Tuwim from Polish into Czech.[7]

Honours

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej / Archiwum Lecha Kaczyńskiego / Aktualności / Rok 2008 / Prezydent RP wręczył nominacje profesorskie . https://web.archive.org/web/20170510080016/http://www.prezydent.pl/archiwum-lecha-kaczynskiego/aktualnosci/rok-2008/art,148,329,prezydent-rp-wreczyl-nominacje-profesorskie.html . 2017-05-10 . 2024-01-10 . prezydent.pl.
  2. Web site: Kraków pożegnał prof. Jacka Balucha, b. ambasadora RP w Pradze. 2019-07-15. Onet Kraków. pl. 2019-07-19.
  3. http://visegradgroup.eu/the-visegrad-book/vondra-alexandr-visegrad Alexandr Alexandr Vondra, Visegrad Cooperation: How Did It Start?
  4. Web site: Archived copy . 2019-07-15 . 2019-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190715002625/https://mzv.cz/jnp/cz/kalendar_akci/x2015_06_09_ministr_zaoralek_udeli_ceny.html . dead .
  5. Web site: Bývalý velvyslanec prof. Jacek Baluch vyznamenán českým ministrem zahraničních věcí . prague.mfa.gov.pl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160915191726/http://prague.mfa.gov.pl/cs/c/MOBILE/news/tytul_strony . 2016-09-15.
  6. Jacek Baluch, Jak układać limeryki? [How to write limericks?], Scriptum, Kraków 2013.
  7. Joanna Maksym-Benczew, Jubileusz 65 rocznicy urodzin Jacka Balucha, Bohemistyka, 4/2005, pp. 305-306 (in Polish).
  8. Web site: Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 23 listopada 2001 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń.. 23 November 2001. prawo.sejm.gov.pl. 2019-07-03. 2020-06-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20200614015113/http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20020080143. dead.
  9. Web site: Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 20 maja 2014 r. o nadaniu orderów. 20 May 2014. prawo.sejm.gov.pl. pl. 2019-07-03.
  10. Web site: Rad Bieleho Dvojkríža III. triedy - ocenenia ocenenia.sk. www.ocenenia.sk. sk. 2019-07-03. 2019-07-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20190703183758/http://www.ocenenia.sk/ocenenie/rad-bieleho-dvojkriza-iii-triedy. dead.
  11. Web site: Seznam vyznamenaných. Pražský hrad. cs. 2019-07-03.

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