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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 a medical degree from Warsaw Medical School , in Poland . Kasparek has edited and translated books by the historian of philosophy, Enigma Decryption ); Poland's greatest novelist, Bolesław Prus ( ''Pharaoh'' , 2nd, revised edition, 2001); and other writers. His translation of Poland's Constitution Of May 3, 1791 (c. 1985), since republished in numerous outlets, 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 . Kasparek has made notable contributions to the history of Enigma decryption and has published ground-breaking papers on Bolesław Prus and his novel ''Pharaoh''. |
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