Christopher Kasparek

Christopher Kasparek (born 1945) is a Scottish-born writer of Polish descent who has translated works by numerous Polish authors, including Ignacy Krasicki, Bolesław Prus, Florian Znaniecki, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Marian Rejewski, and Władysław Kozaczuk, as well as the Polish–Lithuanian Constitution of 3 May 1791.

He has published papers of his own on the history of the World War II era; Enigma decryption; Bolesław Prus and his novel Pharaoh; the theory and practice of translation; logology (science of science); multiple independent discovery; psychiatric nosology; and electronic health records.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Józef and Stanisława (Sylvia ) Kasparek, World War II Polish Armed Forces (both of them, Army and Air Force) veterans, Kasparek lived several years in London, England, before sailing with his family in December 1951 on the Queen Elizabeth to the United States.

In 1966 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and with a University of California Departmental Citation for Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement, from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Polish literature with the future (1980) Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz.

In 1967 he received a Master of Library Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Librarianship, and worked several years as a professional librarian.

In 1978 Kasparek received a medical degree from Warsaw Medical School, in Poland.

For 33 years, 1983–2016, he practiced psychiatry in California.

Kasparek has translated:

A partial list of works written or translated by Christopher Kasparek: