Lorand Gaspar
Lorand Gaspar (28 February 1925, Târgu Mureș – 9 October 2019, Paris) was a Hungarian–born French poet. Life. Gaspar was born in February 1925 in Târgu Mureș, Romania. In 1943, he enrolled at Palatine Joseph University of Technology and Economics (today: Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in Engineering, was mobilized months later, and then imprisoned in a labor camp. He escaped in March 1945, and surrendered to the French in Pfullendorf. He moved to France, where he studied medicine, becoming later a surgeon in France, then in Jerusalem, where he lived for sixteen years, and in Bethlehem  and Tunis. He lived in Paris, where he was involved in medical research dealing with human psychology. He published his first verse collection in 1966, "Le Quatrième État de la matière" (Flammarion) and published a number of prose works and travel books as a photographer. He mastered several languages: to the languages learned as a child, Hungarian, Romanian and German, and later French, English, Latin, Greek and Arabic. He translated (in collaboration with Sarah Clair), Spinoza, Rilke, Seferis, D. H. Lawrence, Peter Riley, and Pilinsky. Gaspar died in Paris in October 2019 at the age of 94. Lorand Gaspar Lorand