Alfons Mieczysław Chrostowski

Alfons Mieczysław Chrostowski , also Mieczysław Alfons Chrostowski, was a Polish author, playwright, and editor of Polish language newspapers in the United States. He is known for , a Polish language play. Karen Majewski wrote, in Traitors and True Poles, that Chrostowski is an exemplar of an alternative Polish collective identity based on social class in preference to ethnic group or nationality. He was educated in Moscow, where he was involved in revolutionary circles and joined the Black Hand Society. In 1894, a national convention of seceding Polish Roman Catholics, according to The New York Times, organized "a new church society, under the adopted name of American Catholic Church" in which "the separate churches comprising the society are to control and possess their own property" and feature "free seats and parochial schools". During the convention, Archbishop Joseph René Vilatte "was appointed the ecclesiastical head of the new church" but he was "to be without arbitrary powers" and subordinate bishops would be elected. and according to Majewski, he is listed in 1920 United States census as a 48-year-old playwright.

Nihilists, his 1894 English translation of , was dedicated to Vilatte.

Other creative works

Serialized in

Chrostowski wrote other revolutionary works that were published anonymously in European periodicals, according to Majewski.

Newspapers Chrostowski was editor of the following Polish language newspapers:

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