Christopher Kasparek

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Christopher Kasparek (born 1945) is a physician, a writer, and a translator from Polish into English.

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[edit] Education

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Polish Armed Forces veterans of World War II, he lived several years in London, England, before moving with his family in 1951 to the United States. In 1966 he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Polish literature with the 1980 Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. In 1978 he received an M.D. degree from Warsaw Medical School, in Poland.

[edit] Editor and translator

Kasparek has edited and translated books by the historian of philosophy, Władysław Tatarkiewicz (On Perfection, 1979; A History of Six Ideas: an Essay in Aesthetics, 1980); the military historian Władysław Kozaczuk (Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two, 1984—"the Bible" on the Polish foundations of World War II Enigma decryption); Poland's greatest novelist, Bolesław Prus (Pharaoh, 2nd, revised edition, 2001); and other writers.

His translation of the Constitution of May 3, 1791 (ca. 1985), since republished in numerous venues, is available (corrected and augmented with the Free Royal Cities Act) on Wikisource.

His translations of verse include selected Fables and Parables by Ignacy Krasicki.

[edit] Scholarly works

Kasparek has made notable contributions to the history of Enigma decryption and has published ground-breaking papers on Bolesław Prus and his novel Pharaoh.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • "Kasparek, Christopher," in Who's Who in Polish America, 1st edition, 1996–1997, New York, Bicentennial Publishing Corp., 1996, ISBN 0-7818-0010-1, p. 186.