Antoni Lange, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antoni Lange

Polish writer and philosopher

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1862

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 17-Mar-1929

Profession: writer, poet, translator, literary critic, philosopher, linguist, science fiction writer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Antoni Lange (1863 – 17 March 1929) was a Polish poet, philosopher, polyglot (15 languages), writer, novelist, science-writer, reporter and translator.
A representative of Polish Parnassianism and symbolism, he is also regarded as belonging to the Decadent movement.
He was an expert on Romanticism, French literature and a popularizer of Eastern cultures. His novel Miranda is known in some circles. He translated English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Indian, American, Serbian, Egyptian and Oriental writers into Polish and Polish poets into French and English.
He was also one of the most original poets of the Young Poland movement.
His work is often compared to Stéphane Mallarmé and Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle. Lange was an uncle of the poet Boleslaw Lesmian.