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Zbigniew Herbert

Died in 1998

Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), born in Lviv, a pupil of the Casimir the Great lyceum, reached Kraków with his family in the spring of 1944, ahead of the return of the Soviets. A graduate of the Kraków Academy of Economics, he attended classes at the Fine Arts and studied law in Kraków and then in Toruń, until 1949. Settled in Warsaw in 1950, he lived there in very difficult conditions. A traveller fascinated by the Mediterranean, he travelled in Italy and Greece in the sixties, took part in the opposition and died in Warsaw on 28 July 1998.

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