Zdzisław Harlender

Zdzisław Harlender (15 June 1898 – 11 September 1939) was a Polish pilot, army officer and writer.

Zdzisław Harlender
Born15 June 1898
Kraków, Poland
Died11 September 1939(1939-09-11) (aged 41)
NationalityPolish
Occupationpilot, army officer and writer

Biography

After World War I, where he was wounded in the Battle of Lemberg, he volunteered for the Polish Airforce and was trained as a pilot. In 1921 he was demobilized and after studies at the Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów and Warsaw School of Economics he worked as a teacher and journalist. In 1932 he was enrolled in a military officer school and in 1934 was appointed as an infantry lieutenant.

He published five books from 1933 to 1939: two on economics, one a war memoir, and the last on politics. In Czciciele Dadźbóg Swarożyca (Worshipers of Dadźbóg Swarożyc) from 1937, he lays out his vision for the revival of the pre-Christian Slavic religion.[1] Although a nationalist and a neopagan, he stood outside of the Polish neopagan milieus of his time.[2]

He was mobilized in the Polish Army when World War II broke out and died on 11 September 1939.[3]

Bibliography
  • Manipulowana waluta wewnętrzna i pieniądz do wypłat międzynarodowych, Warsaw 1933
  • Na podniebnych szlakach. (Zakochani w maszynach), Warsaw 1935
  • Waluta o ustalonej sile nabywczej, Warsaw 1935
  • Czciciele Dadźbóg Swarożyca, Warsaw 1937
  • Polski dynamizm polityczny: praca dyskusyjna, Warsaw 1939

References
  1. Simpson, Scott (2012). "Strategies for Constructing Religious Practice in Polish Rodzimowierstwo". In Anczyk, A.; Grzymała-Moszczyńska, H. (eds.). Walking the Old Ways: Studies in Contemporary European Paganism. Katowice: Sacrum.
  2. Aitamurto, Kaarina; Simpson, Scott, eds. (2014). Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe. p. 123.
  3. Kryska-Karski, T. (1996). Straty korpusu oficerskiego 1939-1935 (in Polish). London.

Further reading
  • Szczepański, Thomas (2015). "Zdzisław Lubomir Harlender – żołnierz, publicysta, neopoganin". Trygław (in Polish). Warsaw (16).
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