About Czesław Hernas
Lived 1928 – 2003 (aged 75). Czesław Hernas was a Polish historian and philologist.
Czesław Hernas (July 12, 1928 – December 11, 2003) was a Polish philologist, folklorist and professor at the University of Wrocław.
Hernas was Director of the Institute of Polish Philology (1971–1885) and a member of the Wroclaw Citizen's Committee of Solidarity (1989–1990).
Hernas was born in Sokal and died in Wrocław.
Books Barok. PWN 1972 Literatura baroku. PWN 1985 Polnischer Barock. Surkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991 Polska XVII wieku red. J. Tazbir, Wiedza powszechna, Warszawa 1977 (author of section Zarys rozwoju literatury barokowej) Hejnały polskie, Studia staropolskie, 1961 W kalinowym lesie, volumes 1, 2, PIW 1965
Awards 2001: Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta 1991: Medal (for achievements in ethnography)
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Polish philologist and folklorist (1928–2003)
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Czesław Hernas was born on 12 July 1928 in Sokal.
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Czesław Hernas died on 11 December 2003 in Wrocław.
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