His father Ludwik was a school inspector, mother was a teacher. Initially he attended a school in
Tarnopol. In 1925 he graduated from Kopernik
gymnasium (high school) in
Lwów and later studied engineering and architecture at the
Lwów Politechnic. After the death of his father in 1928, he went to
Paris, where he studied urban studies in 1931-1932 at
Sorbonne. He started to write and paint there. After return to Lwów he became active in local cultural life. In 1939 he was mobilized into the army and fought during the
Invasion of Poland in the 10th Brigade of Motorized Cavalry of colonel
Stanisław Maczek. After the
Soviet invasion of Poland Haupt fled to
Hungary and later to
France. He survived the
siege of Dunkirk and was evacuated to England. He served in the Polish army until 1946. At the end of the war, Haupt married American Edith Norris from
New Orleans, whom he met in Great Britain. They married in
London and later moved to New Orleans,
New York and
Washington, settling in
Virginia, where he lived the rest of his life. For three decades he contributed stories, articles, and memoirs in Polish to several periodicals, including the Paris-based emigre journal
Kultura. Awards that he received were
Kultura's 1962 prize for literature, and the 1971 award of the Koscielski Foundation of Geneva for his contributions to Polish literature. During his lifetime, Haupt published only one book,
Pierścień z papieru (Paper Ring) in 1963 in Paris.{{cite news == Works ==