Michał Bałucki

Michał Bałucki, pseudonym Elpidon (29 September 1837 – 17 October 1901), was a Polish playwright and poet.

He studied at Saint's Ann gymnasium in Kraków, and then at the Jagiellonian University.

He was an active member of a youth organization that wanted to help Poles fighting the tsarist regime in Russian occupied Poland, but he did not fight in the January Uprising.

In his poems, he attacked Galician aristocrats and the middle class that looked up to them.

At the end of his life he suffered from neurosis and depression and, after a virulently critical article written by Lucjan Rydel, he committed suicide in Błonia Park in Kraków.