Zygmunt Haupt (5 March 1907, in Ułaszkowce, Podole – 10 May 1975, in

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) was a Polish writer and painter.

Biography

His father Ludwik was a school inspector, mother was a teacher. Initially he attended a school in

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. In 1925 he graduated from Kopernik gymnasium (high school) in Lwów and later studied engineering and architecture at the Lwów Politechnic. After the death of his father in 1928, he went to

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, where he studied urban studies in 1931-1932 at

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. He started to write and paint there. After return to Lwów he became active in local cultural life. In 1939 he was mobilized into the army and fought during the

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in the 10th Brigade of Motorized Cavalry of colonel Stanisław Maczek. After the

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Haupt fled to

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and later to

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. He survived the siege of Dunkirk and was evacuated to England. He served in the Polish army until 1946. At the end of the war, Haupt married American Edith Norris from

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, whom he met in Great Britain. They married in

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and later moved to New Orleans, New York and

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, settling in

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, where he lived the rest of his life. For three decades he contributed stories, articles, and memoirs in Polish to several periodicals, including the Paris-based emigre journal ''

Kultura ''Kultura'' (, ''Culture'')—sometimes referred to as ''Kultura Paryska'' ("Paris-based Culture")—was a leading Polish-émigré literary-political magazine, published from 1947 to 2000 by ''Instytut Literacki'' (the Literary Institute), ini ...

''. Awards that he received were ''Kulturas 1962 prize for literature, and the 1971 award of the Koscielski Foundation of Geneva for his contributions to Polish literature. During his lifetime, Haupt published only one book, ''Pierścień z papieru'' (Paper Ring) in 1963 in Paris. After suffering a heart attack, Haupt died 10 May 1975 in the hospital in Winchester, Virginia. He was buried in New Orleans.

Works

* ''Pierścień z papieru'' (1963) - short story collection * ''Szpica. Opowiadania, warianty, szkice'' (1989) - short story collection * ''Baskijski diabeł'' (2007) - large collection of short stories and reports * ''Z Roksolanii'' (2009) - collection of early writings, journalism, drawings

References

External links

Zygmunt Haupt Papers at Stanford

Biography
at Culture.pl (English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Haupt, Zygmunt 1907 births 1975 deaths Polish male writers 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists University of Paris alumni Polish emigrants to the United States Polish military personnel of World War II Polish male painters People from Ternopil Oblast People associated with the magazine "Kultura"