About Helena Willman-Grabowska
Lived 1870 – 1957 (aged 87). Helena Willman-Grabowska was a Polish orientalist, linguist, university teacher, indologist and slavist.
Helena Willman-Grabowska (4 January 1870 in Warsaw – 31 October 1957 in Kraków) was a Polish indologist. A lecturer at the Sorbonne, she was also one of the first female professors at Jagiellonian University. She is best remembered for her publications Les composés nominaux dàns le Śatapathabrāhmana (1927–28), Le chien dans le Rigveda et l'Avesta, L'idée de l'etat dans l'Inde ancienne (1933), and Expiacja (prāyaścitti) in Brāhman (1935).
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Polish Indologist (1870-1957)
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Helena Willman-Grabowska was born on 4 January 1870 in Warsaw.
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Helena Willman-Grabowska died on 31 October 1957 in Kraków.
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Helena Willman-Grabowska was an orientalist, linguist, university teacher, indologist and slavist.
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Helena Willman-Grabowska was Polish.
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