Grydzewski (Grytzhendler), Mieczyslaw

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GRYDZEWSKI (Grytzhendler), MIECZYSLAW

GRYDZEWSKI (Grytzhendler), MIECZYSLAW (1894–1970), Polish literary editor. Grydzewski played an important part in Polish literary and intellectual life between the world wars as editor of the weekly Wiadomości Literackie (1924–39) and of the monthly Skamander (1935–39). He also ran the French-language monthly La Pologne littéraire (1926–?). An exile after 1939, he edited (in London) the Polish émigré weekly Wiadomości and published literary essays such as Henryk Dąbrowski (1945).

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