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León de Greiff 🇨🇴

Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler (Known as "Leo Legris")
Avant-Garde Modernist Poet, Master of Polyphony, The Panidas Circle Pioneer
Born 1895-09-26 🇨🇴 Medellín, Colombia
Passed Away 1976-07-11 Bogotá, Colombia
Lifespan 80 years old
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"I play with words as the wind plays with dry autumn leaves; sound is the architecture of my solitude."

Archival Overview

Visionary and eccentric avant-garde poet of Colombian-Swedish ancestry whose baroque, musical verse, inventive neologisms, and alter egos (Leo Legris, Erik Fjordson) made him an unclassifiable literary titan.

Biographical Record

León de Greiff was born on September 26, 1895, in Medellín, the grandson of Swedish engineer Karl Sigismund Fromholt von Greiff. In 1915, he co-founded the rebellious literary movement Los Panidas in Medellín with artist Pedro Nel Gómez, scandalizing conservative society with modernist aesthetic freedom.

De Greiff created a singular, astonishing poetic universe that fused musical polyphony, medieval troubadour balladry, chess metaphors, and ironic humor in collections like Tergiversaciones and Variaciones alrededor de nada. Serving as Director of the National Department of Statistics and Ambassador to Sweden, he was revered by younger generations as a supreme master of verbal music.

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Central Cemetery of Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia
GPS: 4.6182, -74.0762
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