Zygmunt Łempicki (11 May 1886 in

Sanok Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — pl, Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok, rue, Санок, ''Sanok'', ua, Cянік, ''Sianik'', la, Sanocum, yi, סאניק, ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of south-eastern ...

– 21 June 1943 in

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

) was a Polish literature theoretician, Germanist, philosopher, and culture historian. Łempicki was professor at the

Warsaw University The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

from 1919 until 1939, member of the

Polish Academy of Skills The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning ( pl, Polska Akademia Umiejętności), headquartered in Kraków and founded in 1872, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland having the nature of an academy of scien ...

and editor-in-chief of the "Świat i Życie" encyclopedia. He was arrested and killed in the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

concentration camp Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply ...

Works

* ''Geschichte der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft...'' (1920) * ''Renesans - oświecenie - romantyzm'' (1923) * ''Wybór pism'' (t. 1-2 1966)

References

20th-century Polish philosophers Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Jews from Austria-Hungary People from Sanok 1886 births 1943 deaths Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust Jewish Polish writers Members of the Lwów Scientific Society Academic staff of the University of Warsaw {{Poland-historian-stub