ALFRED KORZYBSKI JULY 3, 1879 – MARCH 1, 1950 BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was born in Warsaw in 1879. His father was a high-ranking engineer in the Russian Ministry of Communications. Alfred Korzybski's first training was in engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Warsaw. Subsequently he did graduate work both in the natural scien...

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Published in:Etc. 2017-01, Vol.74 (1/2), p.86-92
Main Author: Rapoport, Anatol
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Language:English
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Summary:Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was born in Warsaw in 1879. His father was a high-ranking engineer in the Russian Ministry of Communications. Alfred Korzybski's first training was in engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Warsaw. Subsequently he did graduate work both in the natural sciences and in humanities in Germany and Italy. He saw military service in World War I, first in the Russian cavalry, later in artillery and in the intelligence department of the general staff. In Dec 1915, Korzybski arrived in the US as an artillery expert. In 1917, when the Russian armies collapsed and disintegrated as a result of the revolution, Korzybski remained in the US, first as secretary to the Polish- French Military Commission, then as recruiting officer for the Polish-French army, and later as a war lecturer for the US government. After the end of the war, he became secretary of the Polish Commission (labor section) of the League of Nations. In 1919 at Washington DC, Korzybski married Mira Edgerly, a noted American painter. About the same time he began to write his first major work, Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering.
ISSN:0014-164X
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