Leopold Unger
Male, Deceased Person
1922 – 2011
Who was Leopold Unger?
Leopold Unger was a journalist, columnist, and essayist.
Unger was born in Lwów, Poland. Nicknamed Brukselczyk and Pol Mathil, during World War II, he sought refuge in Romania. He began his career in 1948 in Bucharest as correspondent for the Polish Press Agency. After the war, he worked in Warsaw for the daily newspaper, Życie Warszawy. In 1967, he was laid off for political reasons, then forced to leave Poland in 1969 in the wake of the a 1968 anti-Semitic campaign launched by the communist authorities.
Unger lived in Brussels from 1969, and wrote for the Brussels daily, Le Soir, as columnist, specialising in international affairs, mainly in the ex-USSR and Eastern Europe. He was formerly a fellow at the Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C. Between 1974 and 1982, he was a columnist for the International Herald Tribune in Paris, a regular commentator for the Polish Section of Radio Free Europe and, temporarily, for the Polish Section of the BBC.
Unger published a monthly essay in Kultura, edited by Jerzy Giedroyc, a major Polish émigré democratic opposition forum.
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- Born
- Aug 12, 1922
Lviv - Education
- Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
- Died
- Dec 20, 2011
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on July 23, 2013
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