Christopher Kasparek

Christopher Kasparek completed the first draft of his longest, most challenging translation—of the historical novel "Pharaoh", by Bolesław Prus—while in secondary school. The present, 2020 Kindle ebook version, with translator’s foreword and annotations, incorporates extensive research and textual refinements carried out since his translation’s first two, hardcover editions.

At the University of California, Berkeley, Kasparek studied and translated Polish literature with Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz.

During Kasparek’s subsequent medical studies in Warsaw, Poland, he translated writings by philosopher WładysławTatarkiewicz, including two books: "On Perfection" (1979); and the bulk of "A History of Six Ideas: An Essay in Aesthetics" (1980).

After completing his medical degree, Kasparek edited and translated historian Władysław Kozaczuk’s book, "Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two" (1984). The translation, augmented with Kasparek’s translations of papers by mathematician-cryptologist Marian Rejewski, and of interviews with Rejewski and other principals, has been called “the Bible” on the 7 years’ Polish work, before World War II, on decrypting German Enigma ciphers—work that laid the foundations for the western Allies’ crucial wartime reading of the German machine ciphers.

During Kasparek’s subsequent training in, and practice of, psychiatry he has translated most of Ignacy Krasicki’s "Fables and Parables" (1779); the Polish-Lithuanian Constitution of 3 May 1791; Bolesław Prus’s "On Discoveries and Inventions" (1873); short stories and microstories by Prus; and papers by sociologist Florian Znaniecki and philosopher Tadeusz Kotarbiński.

Dr. Kasparek has also published papers on the World War II era; Enigma decryption; Bolesław Prus and his novel "Pharaoh"; the theory and practice of translation; logology (“the science of science”); multiple independent discovery; psychiatric nosology; his 1990 proposal of a standard worldwide system of computerized medical records; and the “matergetic crisis” of global warming and environmental devastation.