Władysław Glinka

Władysław Bonifacy Glinka of Trzaska (1864 – 21 September 1930), also known by the pseudonym Trzaska, was a Polish activist and writer.

Biography Origins He came from the landowning Glinka family, settled at the Szczawin estate near Ostrołęka. He was born in 1864 as the son of Mikołaj Zenon and Maria née Watta-Kosicka, daughter of Ludwik Kosicki, a historian, educator, and professor at St. Anne's Lyceum in Kraków. He had a sister, Jadwiga (1856–1938), and a brother, Antoni (died 1933).

Education In 1881, he began his studies at the prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, graduating in 1884 with first prize and a medal. His breeding of English half-blood horses, intended for military use, was also of high quality. He contributed articles to the "Agricultural Gazette". In 1904, he founded one of the first. agricultural circles in the Kingdom of Poland. He led numerous other socio-economic organizations, including the District Agricultural Society, where he established a small credit fund for rural areas. Secret contributions for national education were collected under his name at the Commercial Bank in Warsaw. He studied the works of French philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, and Auguste Comte. He translated into Polish a work by Father Michel d'Herbigny and several encyclicals of Leo XIII. In addition to numerous journalistic articles, he wrote short stories collected in the volume Panna Żabińska, published in 1900 under the pseudonym "Trzaska". stating that "the idea had begun to distort".

After the outbreak of World War I, he founded and chaired the Ostrołęka Citizens' Committee., While in prison, he wrote a pamphlet titled Bolshevism and the Agrarian Question in Poland, outlining his views on land reform. After his release in November 1918, he returned to Poland.

In the Second Polish Republic

His first act upon returning was organizing a County Committee in Ostrołęka. Following the merger of the Real Politics Party with other right-wing parties into the Constitutional Work Party (later renamed the National Right Party), he joined the new organization's Main Board. He was a key figure in the "coup" of former realists aimedHed to curb the influence, mainly of the Galician faction from the former National Democracy. On 14 September 1920, he left the party. After 1923, he withdrew from active political life, turning toward Christian-conservative currents. He maintained ties with prominent Polish politicians, including Władysław Grabski and Stanisław Wojciechowski. He also chaired the Union of Long-Term Credit Institutions.

Death and burial He died of a heart attack on 21 September 1930 in Warsaw and was buried at the cemetery in Rzekuń near Ostrołęka.

Orders and decorations Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (7 November 1925). Commander of the Legion of Honour (France).

Publications Books Panna Żabińska (Panna Żabińska, Breeding Farm in Kaczynów, Maligna, Antosia, Philosopher, Excerpt from Helena P.’s Diary), under the pseudonym "Trzaska" (Warsaw, 1901) Bolshevism and the Agrarian Question in Poland (Warsaw, 1918) Memoirs of the Great War (Warsaw, vol. I – 1927, vols. II-IV – 1928)

Selected articles Published in: "Agricultural Gazette", "Głos", "Czas", "Landowners’ Review", "Warsaw Courier".