The Polish Press Bureau today reported the death in Cracow, Nazi Poland, of the noted scholar and philologist Prof. Leo Sternbach. Prof. Sternbach, who was 76, reportedly died as a result of hardships endured while he was detained in a concentration camp following the German occupation. He was well known in Catholic Church circles and, as president of the Patristic Commission of the Polish Academy, had come into personal contact with the late Pope Pius Xl. He was an authority on Greek language and literature from Homer to the Byzantine era.
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