Jan Sztaudynger
Appearance
Jan Izydor Sztaudynger (Kraków, 28 April 1904 – 12 September 1970, Kraków) was a Polish poet and satirist who enjoyed enormous popularity after World War II.
Life
[edit]Jan Sztaudynger studied Polish and German philology at Kraków's Jagiellonian University.
He is known for his epigrams, which in Poland are called fraszki (singular: fraszka). Sztaudynger called some of his epigrams piórka (singular: piórko).
In 1964 Sztaudynger published a poetry collection, Tranzytem przez Łódź (Transit through Łódź), in which he expressed nostalgia for that city's Fraszka cafe.
See also
[edit]- Stanisław Jerzy Lec — contemporary writer of aphorisms
References
[edit]- Poet's Corner (1998): Jan Sztaudynger
- The City of Lodz Office: Jan Izydor Sztaudynger
External links
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Categories:
- 1904 births
- 1970 deaths
- Jagiellonian University alumni
- Aphorists
- Writers from Kraków
- 20th-century Polish poets
- 20th-century Polish male writers
- Burials at Salwator Cemetery
- Polish people of German descent
- Polish people of French descent
- Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
- Polish satirists
- Polish poet stubs