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Guillaume Apollinaire
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26 August 1880 - 9 November 1918
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Born into the family of a Polish aristocrat and an Italian officer, he was baptized as Wilhelm Apollinarius Kostrowitzky. He was educated in Monte Carlo and later moved to Paris. For a while he worked as a teacher, then devoted himself entirely to literature.
In 1913, the poetry collection “Alcohol” was published, which is considered the highest achievement of Apollinaire-poet. With the outbreak of World War I, Apollinaire went to the front, and in 1916 was wounded in the head. Weakened by his wounds, a year and a half later he contracted the Spanish flu and was unable to recover.