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Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1877 – August 1942) was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue, known as Pan Doktor (Mr Doctor).

Biography

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Korczak was born in Warsaw to an assimilated Jewish family. His mother Cecylia Głębicka was the daughter of prominent Kalisz Jews and his father Józef Goldszmit was from a family of proponents of the haskalah.

Korczak's father died in 1896, possibly by his own hand, leaving the family without a source of income. Over the next few years, the family was forced to abandon their spacious apartment and, during his teens, Korczak was the sole breadwinner for his mother, sister, and grandmother.

Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit born in or , physician, writer and educator.

Janusz Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit born in or , physician, writer and educator.

Janusz Korczak, whose original name was Henryk Goldszmit, was born in a Jewish, assimilated, middle-class family in Warsaw.

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July or – 7 August ), was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and.

He set up orphanages and lived among children in real life, not just in the imagination, for he saw them as the salvation of the world.

He was born Henryk Goldszmit in in Warsaw, Poland.

In 1898 he used Janusz Korczak as a writing pseudonym in Ignacy Paderewski's literary contest. The name originated from the book Janusz Korczak and the Pretty Swordsweeperlady by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. In 1890s he studied in the