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Leopold Staff

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Polish poet (1878-1957)

WritersLived 1878 to 1957 · aged 78
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Leopold Henryk Staff 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.

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1953Work Flag Order, 1st class
1948Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
1946Gold Cross of Merit‎
1933Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
1923Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta

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Leopold Henryk Staff 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, the ideas of Franciscan order as well as paradoxes of Christianity.

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Lived 1878 to 1957 · aged 78
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