Jan Sztaudynger

Who was Jan Sztaudynger?

Jan Izydor Sztaudynger was a Polish poet and satirist. He enjoyed enormous popularity as a poet in Poland after the Second World War.

Sztaudynger studied Polish and German philology at the Jagiellonian University. Between 1945 and 1961, he was a lecturer at the National Dramatic School of the Puppet-Show Theatre in Łódź.

Sztaudynger was best known for his epigrams, which in Poland were called Fraszka, after the literary cafe Fraszka at ulica Piotrkowska 96 in Łódź. In 1964 he published the poetry collection, Tranzytem przez Łódź, in which he expressed his nostalgia for that cafe. Sztaudynger named some of his epigrams Piórka".