Zygmunt Łempicki
Polish literature theoretician and philosopher
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Zygmunt Łempicki (11 May 1886 in Sanok – 21 June 1943 in Auschwitz) was a Polish literature theoretician, Germanist, philosopher, and culture historian.[1] He was an influential figure in Polish German studies of the interwar period.[2]
Łempicki was professor at the Warsaw University from 1919 until 1939, member of the Polish Academy of Skills and editor-in-chief of the "Świat i Życie" encyclopedia.
He was arrested with his wife Wanda and died from typhus in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz on 21 June 1943.[3]
Works
- Geschichte der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft... (1920)
- Renesans - oświecenie - romantyzm (1923)
- Wybór pism (t. 1-2 1966)
