Konrad Prószyński

Konrad Prószyński
Born(1851-02-19)19 February 1851
Mińsk Litewski, now Minsk
Died8 July 1908(1908-07-08) (aged 57)
Warsaw
Resting placePowązki Cemetery
Pen nameKazimierz Promyk
NationalityPolish
Notable works
  • Pictorial literacy
  • O księdzu Stanisławie Staszycu

Konrad Prószyński (19 February 1851 – 8 July 1908), pen name Kazimierz Promyk, was a Polish writer and editor from the Russian Empire. He was the author of primers (textbooks), editor-in-chief of Gazeta Świąteczna (Holiday Gazette); the founder of secret Society for National Education (Towarzystwo Oświaty Narodowej) under foreign Partitions, and the author of well received Pictorial Literacy (1879) primer. He was father of a Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński.