Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-11-16 | Page 7 | Man Who Wrote "Quo Vadis" Dead

MAN WHO WROTE "QUO VADSS" DEAD New York, Nov. 16. Henrik Sien-kiewicz, Sien-kiewicz, the Polish novelist best known In this country as the author of "Quo Vadls," is dead at Vevey, Switzerland, according to a sable dispatch dis-patch received here today by the Polish Pol-ish victims' relief committee. Sienklewicz had devoted much of his time recently to Polish relief work. Ho had been in frequent communication communi-cation since the European war began with the committee here and with the National American Red Cross. The announcement of his death came from a man named Rabinowitz who is a member of the Polish committee com-mittee at Lausanne, Switzerland. The message said the novelist died suddenly sud-denly in a Vevey hotel yesterday. When Helen Modjeska, Polish actress, ac-tress, settled on a ranch near Los Angeles, California, about 1876, hop ing thero to found a colony for op. pressed Poles, Sienklewicz emigrated to this country and joined her. Her project did not succeed and Sienklewicz Sienkle-wicz returned to his own country to engage in literary work. His "Quo Vadis" has ben translated Into almost every European language.