Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, graphic artist and literary critic, who is widely regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born, and spent his entire life in Drohobycz (first Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Poland, Soviet Union, and Ukraine), in the province of Galicia, to assimilated Jewish parents. He was killed by a German Nazi officer.
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Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, graphic artist and literary critic, who is widely regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born, and spent his entire life in Drohobycz (first Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Poland, Soviet Union, and Ukraine), in the province of Galicia, to assimilated Jewish parents. He was killed by a German Nazi officer.
Bruno Schulz was the son of cloth merchant Jakub Schulz and Henrietta, née Kuhmerker. At a very early age, he developed an interest in the arts. He studied at a gymnasium in Drohobycz from 1902 to 1910, and proceeded to study architecture at Lviv University. In 1917 he briefly studied architecture in Vienna. After World War I, the region of Galicia which included Drohobycz became a Polish territory. In the postwar period, Schulz came to teach drawing in a Polish gymnasium, from 1924 to 1941. His employment kept him in his hometown, although he disliked his...
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