Key facts
- Born
- Leopold Staff , ( 1878-11-14 ) 14 November 1878, Lemberg , Austrian partition
- Died
- 31 May 1957 (1957-05-31) (aged 78), Skarżysko-Kamienna , Poland
- Language
- Polish
- Nationality
- Polish
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leopold
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Lviv
- Place of death
- Skarżysko-Kamienna
- Occupation
- playwright
- Educated at
- Lviv University
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Native language
- Polish
- Field of work
- fiction
- Genre
- parnassianism
- Movement
- Symbolism
- Image
- Leopold Staff pocztówka (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Leopold Staff
- place of burial
- Powązki Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1878-01-14
- date of death
- 1957-05-31
- described by source
- Polish Biographical Dictionary
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- name in native language
- Leopold Staff
- writing language
- Polish
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Encyclopedic overview
Leopold Henryk Staff (November 14, 1878 – May 31, 1957) was a Polish poet; an artist 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 (from whom he translated several books into Polish), the ideas of Franciscan order as well as paradoxes of Christianity.
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