León de Greiff (1895 - 1976), was a Colombian poet of the 20th century. His full name was Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff and used several pseudonyms in his works. The most popular were Leo de Gris and Gaspar de Nuit. He was one of the founders of Los Panidas, a literary and artistic 1915 movement in Medellín that is considered the beginning of Modernismo in Colombia. In that movement were also the philosopher Fernando González Ochoa an...
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León de Greiff (1895 - 1976), was a Colombian poet of the 20th century. His full name was Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff and used several pseudonyms in his works. The most popular were Leo de Gris and Gaspar de Nuit. He was one of the founders of Los Panidas, a literary and artistic 1915 movement in Medellín that is considered the beginning of Modernismo in Colombia. In that movement were also the philosopher Fernando González Ochoa and the cartoonist Ricardo Rendón. The poetry of De Greiff is philosophical and sometimes difficult to understand, inspired in modernist authors, the same ones he read since he was young.
León de Greiff was the son of the political leader Luis de Greiff and Amelia Haeusler, whose father was a German. The great-grand father of León was a Swedish engineer, Carlos Segismundo Von Greiff, who moved to Colombia in 1826. Other well-known Von Greiffs in the South American nation are his youngest brother, the musician and poet Otto de Greiff, The nation...
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