Born in Wielopol Rybnicki, outstanding journalist and historian, editor in ?Katolik?, ?Gazeta Opolska?, ?Kurier Sosnowiecki? magazines, worked in the Polish Plebiscitary Committee (1920), author of numerous biographies and historic elaborations about Upper Silesia. He was a prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Monographer of ?Z przeszłości Mikołowa i jego okolicy? (1932) (translation.: From the past of Mikołów and its and neighborhood).