Zygmunt Łempicki (11 May 1886 in

Sanok Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — , , ''Sanok'', , ''Sianok'' or ''Sianik'', , , ''Sūnik'' or ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of southeastern Poland with 38,397 inhabitants, as of June 2016. Located on the San ...

– 21 June 1943 in

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

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from 1919 until 1939, member of the

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

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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