The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

He was born as Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in the former Kingdom of Romania (now Ukraine) and changed his name to "Paul Celan" (where Celan in Romanian would be pronounced Chelan and was derived from Ancel pronounced AntPaul Celanl) becoming one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. Paul Celan (23 November 1920 – c.