[1] Stanisław Feliks Przybyszewski was born in Łojewo (Lohdorf) near Kruszwica (Kruschwitz) during the partitions of Poland.

The son of a local teacher, Józef Przybyszewski, Stanisław attended a German gymnasium in Toruń (Thorn),[1] graduating in 1889.

In 1896, he was arrested in Berlin on suspicion of the murder of his common-law wife Martha, but released after it was determined that she had died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

In the autumn of 1898, he and Dagny moved to Kraków where he set himself up as the leader of a group of revolutionary young artists and as editor of their mouthpiece Życie (Life).

He travelled to Lviv in today's Ukraine (then Austrian Lemberg, Polish name had been Lwów) and visited the poet and playwright Jan Kasprowicz.

During the war, they lived for a short time in Bohemia (Czech Lands) and moved to newly re-established Poland in 1919.

In Poznań (Posen) he applied for the position of director of a literary theatre, but his work with German political brochures during the war prevented the appointment.