Christopher Kasparek

Christopher Kasparek , son of World War II Polish Armed Forces veterans, was born in Scotland. He produced an initial draft translation of Pharaoh while in secondary school. After pre-medical studies at Monterey Peninsula College, from 1965-66 he studied Polish literature at the University of California, Berkeley with 1980 Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, including participation in Milosz's seminars translating Polish poetry. In 1972-78 Kasparek studied medicine at Warsaw Medical School, in...See more

Christopher Kasparek , son of World War II Polish Armed Forces veterans, was born in Scotland. He produced an initial draft translation of Pharaoh while in secondary school. After pre-medical studies at Monterey Peninsula College, from 1965-66 he studied Polish literature at the University of California, Berkeley with 1980 Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, including participation in Milosz's seminars translating Polish poetry. In 1972-78 Kasparek studied medicine at Warsaw Medical School, in Poland. During that time, he translated papers and two books, A History of Six Ideas and On Perfection , by the doyen of Polish philosophers, Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz. After receiving his medical degree, Kasparek translated the standard history of Polish breaking of German Enigma-machine ciphers (a cryptological achievement which, a month before the outbreak of World War II, Poland shared with France and Britain, enabling Britain to break Enigma ciphers at Bletchley Park): Wladyslaw Kozaczuk, Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two , edited and translated by Christopher Kasparek, Frederick, Maryland, University Publications of America, 1984. Kasparek subsequently practiced psychiatry for 33 years in California, where he resides. He has also published translations of sections of several other books; as well as articles and translations on a wide range of subjects in publications including The Monterey Herald ; The Daily Californian (the U.C. Berkeley student newspaper); Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa (Logology [or] Science of Science; Warsaw--a quarterly of the Polish Academy of Sciences); Dialectics and Humanism: The Polish Philosophical Quarterly ; Cryptologia ; The Polish Review ; Psychiatric News ; The Psychiatric Times ; Clinical Psychiatry News ; and many articles and translations in the online Wikipedia and Wikisource . He resides in Carmel, California. See less