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Wiktor Steffen - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Wiktor Steffen
- Wiktor Steffen (27 September 1903; Szabruk, Austria-Hungary – 29 April 1997; Wroclaw, Poland) was a professor of classical philology and Hellenist at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Steffen was born in 1903 in Szabruk, Austria-Hungary.
- From 1924 to 1927, he studied classical philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan where he later began his academic career.
- After obtaining his PhD in philology in 1931 and doing habilitation in classical philology in 1934, Steffen became a teacher in various high schools throughout Poland.
- He served as such from 1930 to 1939, until the onslaught of the Second World War.
- During the war, Steffen was a POW in Germany, bud despite it, survived the war by working as an underground teacher.Following the end of the war, he went to a newly liberated Pomerania where he taught at New Town's middle and high school.
- He returned to University of Poznan and joined its Department of Classical Philology, serving as an assistant professor from 1945 to 1949.
- In 1946, Steffen also became a teacher and contract professor at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and in 149, after accepting associate professor position, moved from Poznan to Wroclaw.
- While there, he became a founder of the Institute of Classical Philology of the University of Wroclaw and after becoming full professor, returned to Poznan in 1958, at the university of which he continued to work until his retirement in 1973.Prior to his retirement, Steffen also served as the head of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Leipzig from 1961 to 1963.
- As a Hellenist, Steffen was specializing in Hellenic poetry as well as Greek satire, drama, tragedy, and comedy of that period.
- He was a member of various societies among which were; the Polish Philological Society, the Wroclaw Scientific Society, the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Poznan Society of Friends of Learning, and the Scientific Society of the Catholic University of Lublin.He died in Wroclaw, Poland in 1997.
