Zbigniew herbert biography of michael

Zbigniew Herbert was born on October 29, , in Poland in the city of Lvov, which is now a part of the Ukraine. His grandfather was an Englishman who settled in Lvov to teach English.

His father, a former member of the Legions that had fought for restoration of Poland’s independence, was a bank manager. Herbert’s formal education began in Lvov and continued under German occupation in the form of clandestine study at the underground King John Casimir University, where he majored in Polish literature.

Zbigniew herbert biography of michael jackson

He was a member of the underground resistance movement. In , he moved to Krakow, and three years later he graduated from the University of Krakow with a master’s degree in economics. He also received a law degree from Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun and studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw under Henryk Elzenberg.

During the s, Herbert worked at many low-paying jobs because he refused to write within the framework of official Communist guidelines.

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