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Leopold Staff

Died in 1957

Leopold Staff (1878-1957), born in Lviv, the son of a confectioner of Czech origin, studied law, philosophy and Romance languages and literatures at the city's university and left for Italy in 1901. A translator of Nietzsche and of the Fioretti of Saint Francis, he spent the First World War in Kharkiv, settled in Warsaw in 1918 and was, from 1934 to 1939, vice-president of the Polish Academy of Literature. He taught clandestinely under the occupation, lost his manuscripts and library in the fire of his apartment during the 1944 uprising and died in Skarżysko-Kamienna on 31 May 1957.

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