Edmund Wacław Naganowski (26 September 1853 – 28 January 1915), was a Polish publicist and writer also known under pen names E. Działosz, Latarnik and Edmund Sas (Sas most likely refers to his Sas coat of arms).Izabela Zbiegniewska, Pseudonimy i kryptonimy pisarzów polskich, M. Arcta, 1905, p. 24
Life Naganowski was born in Gostyń, Greater Poland, then in Grand Duchy of Posen, that after 1815 was part of the Kingdom of Prussia.Jan Dąbrowski, Polacy w Anglii i o Anglii, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1962, Chapter "Anglofil Edmund Naganowski", pp. 260–317 After finishing his studies in England, he was a teacher in a high school in Waterford in Ireland and he later worked at the British Museum.A footnote in the collection of letters by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Listy Part 1. Marian Albiński-Cyprian Godebski, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1977 On 14 February 1903 he became naturalized in Great Britain, under the name Edmund Sas de Naganowski.Nationality and Naturalisation: de Naganowski, Edmund Sas, from Austria-HungaryPapers by Command, Volume 78, H.M. Stationery Office, 1904, "Aliens"
He served as secretary of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland in LondonPreface to the 2014 reprint of the 1913 book, Andrzej Małkowski, Scouting in Poland, (paperback), (hard)
He is credited with the introduction of scouting in Poland.
Monica Mary Gardner acknowledged the influence and support of Naganowski on her interests in Polish culture from 1899 to the outbreak of the First World War.Monica Mary Gardner, The Anonymous Poet of Poland, Zygmunt Krasinski, University Press, 1919, Preface, p.vi
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Further reading Naganowski Edmund, in: Literatura polska. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny. Warszawa 1984 PWN Vol.1: A-M. p. 9.