Leopold Staff

Writer, Author

1878 – 1957

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Who was Leopold Staff?

Leopold Staff was a Polish poet; one of the greatest artists of European modernism twice granted the Degree of Doctor honoris causa by universities in Warsaw and in Kraków. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Polish PEN Club. Representative of classicism and symbolism in the poetry of Young Poland, he was an author of many philosophical poems influenced by the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, the ideas of Franciscan order as well as paradoxes of Christianity.

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Born
Nov 14, 1878
Lviv
Also known as
  • Стафф, Леопольд
  • 利奥波德·斯塔夫
Nationality
  • Poland
Profession
Education
  • Lviv University
Lived in
  • Lviv
Died
May 31, 1957
Skarżysko-Kamienna

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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