Wacław Korabiewicz

In 1958, he returned to Poland. From 1959 to 1961, he went out to Ghana as the head of an epidemiological programme. He returned to Warsaw in 1962. From that time he dedicated himself exclusively to writing. Between 1963 and 1976, he "forwarded" exhibits to the National Museum in Warsaw. He organized exhibitions of their collections of African art, including the exhibition "Masqual - The Cross of Ethiopia", air the National Museum, Warsaw, 1966. He travelled widely in Africa and in the Middle East. He settled in Natolin, a district of Warsaw.

In 1930, he travelled by canoe across Turkey and Greece. After graduation, he worked as a doctor at the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia. In the years 1931–1939 he was the ship's doctor on Dar Pomorza. From 1934 onwards, with his first wife, Janina M. Haazówna, he travelled to India. After the outbreak of World War II he was interned in Stockholm with the crew of the Dar Pomorza. Later, he worked on the liner, MS Piłsudski. He next lived in London, where he was a founder of Circle for the Care of Veterans. He moved to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where he organized help for former Polish prisoners of war. In 1942, he participated in an expedition into the Brazilian jungle. From 1943 to 1946, he stayed in Africa, as a delegate of the Polish government-in-exile. While in Lusaka, he worked for the Polish Ministry of Social Welfare that had responsibility for Polish ex-prisoners in the camps of Northern Rhodesia. He had a similar role in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He worked as a deputy curator of the "King George V Memorial Museum", conducting research into folklore of the British territories in Africa and also in Mozambique. He was also a physician at a local hospital. In 1954, after sending a number of exhibits to the Polish Museum of Folk Culture in Młociny, he was expelled from Tanganyika and stayed in London. Between 1954 - 1956 he was in Ethiopia, where he worked as a doctor.

In the years 1927–1932 he studied medicine and ethnography at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. While a student, he was co-founder and member of the Vilnius Academic Vagabonds Club. A fellow student at the time was the writer, Czeslaw Milosz and commented about Korabiewicz's great height that earned him the Sobriquet, Kilometre. He made his début in the journal Reduta (Vilnius 1925), and had poems appear in poetry publications, including STO, Vilnius 1928, A stick in the sky, Vilnius, 1929 and in magazines such as, "Alma Mater Vilnensis".

Wacław Korabiewicz (5 May 1903, in St. Petersburg – 15 February 1994, in Warsaw) was a Polish physician and ethnographer. His reputation is that of writer, poet, traveller and collector of ethnographic material.