What was Joseph Conrad’s original name?

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Joseph Conrad’s original name was Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. He adopted the pen name Joseph Conrad in April 1895 upon the publication of his first novel, Almayer’s Folly, as he had learned that his birth name was difficult for British readers to pronounce.12