León de Greiff, Colombian poet and educator (born 1895)

León de Greiff

Colombian poet (1895–1976)

Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler, was a Colombian poet known for his stylistic innovations and deliberately eclectic use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names. The most popular were Leo le Gris and Gaspar Von…