Paul Celan
Poet, Author
1920 – 1970
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Who was Paul Celan?
Paul Celan was a Romanian poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in the former Kingdom of Romania, and changed his name to "Paul Celan", becoming one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era.
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- Born
- Nov 23, 1920
Chernivtsi - Also known as
- Paul Antschel
- Spouses
- Gisèle Lestrange
(1952/12/21 - ) - Ingeborg Bachmann
(1951 - )
- Gisèle Lestrange
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Ashkenazi Jews
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Employment
- École Normale Supérieure
- Lived in
- Chernivtsi
- Died
- Apr 20, 1970
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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