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Leopold Staff

1878 - 1957

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leopold Staff is the 4,574th most popular writer (down from 4,286th in 2019), the 697th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 664th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leopold Staff ranks 4,574 out of 7,302. Before him are Hulda Garborg, Grace Aguilar, Jean-Richard Bloch, Tankred Dorst, Bill Lawrence, and Mazo de la Roche. After him are Angelo de Gubernatis, Yevhen Hrebinka, Pierre Michon, Louise Otto-Peters, Scholastique Mukasonga, and Aleksei Arbuzov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Leopold Staff ranks 190. Before him are Jean Becquerel, William Orpen, Albert Nasse, Holger Thiele, Edwin Mills, and Ladislav Klíma. After him are Dorothea Bate, Joel Stebbins, Harry Carey, Gustav Schuft, He Xiangning, and Henry B. Walthall. Among people deceased in 1957, Leopold Staff ranks 167. Before him are Tomitaro Makino, Charles King, Maurice Peeters, Ernest Oppenheimer, Robert Lowie, and Mary Proctor. After him are John Svanberg, Martin Wagner, Harry Watson, Patrick Abercrombie, Piero Carini, and Hjalmar Johansson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leopold Staff ranks 697 out of 1,365. Before him are Vera Inber (1890), Mark Donskoy (1901), Eduard Mudrik (1939), Elina Svitolina (1994), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927), and Volodymyr Onyshchenko (1949). After him are Anatoly Levchenko (1941), Yevhen Hrebinka (1812), Natalya Meklin (1922), Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879), Sviatoslav III of Kiev (null), and Denis Pushilin (1981).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Leopold Staff ranks 98. Before him are Yevgeny Petrov (1902), Margarita Aliger (1915), Fedir Bohatyrchuk (1892), Mykola Khvylovy (1893), Alexander Galich (1918), and Vera Inber (1890). After him are Yevhen Hrebinka (1812), Dmytro Pavlychko (1929), Mykola Zerov (1890), Panas Myrny (1849), Itzik Feffer (1900), and Alexander Tairov (1885).

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