Historia plagiatów Wincentego Rzymowskiego odkrytych na łamach tygodnika ,,Prosto z Mostu”
History of Wincenty Rzymowski’s plagiarism discovered in the weekly “Prosto z Mostu”

Summary/Abstract: The article presents stories of plagiarisms committed by Wincenty Rzymowski, a leading Polish journalist of the interwar period, the editor-in-chief of ”Kurier Poranny” and a member of the Polish Academy of Literature. Plagiarism was discovered by the editors of the right-wing weekly ”Prosto z Mostu”, edited and published by Stanisław Piasecki. Rzymowski in his journalism used excerpts from the work of the British thinker Bertrand Russell In Praise of Idleness and excerpts from the article of the French journalist Jean Prèvost, discussing the position of England against the Italian-Abyssinian conflict. The article focuses on the scope of plagiarism, the reactions of the Polish daily press and cultural weeklies, national, catholic, liberal-left and satirical, as well as the effects of the ruling of the Polish Academy of Literature, which pronounced on the accusation in consequence of which Rzymowski gave up from membership in Academy.

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