About Jan Stanisławski
Lived 1893 – 1973 (aged 79–80). Jan Stanisławski was a Polish lexicographer, linguist, scholar of English and philologist.
Jan Stanisławski (1893–1973) was a Polish lexicographer.
Before World War II, as a lecturer in English at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, Stanisławski compiled an English-Polish, Polish-English dictionary. This one-volume dictionary was reprinted during World War II in Great Britain (first reprint, March 1940).
Stanisławski, with the assistance of Wiktor Jassem, subsequently augmented this modest dictionary into what became Wielki słownik angielsko-polski [The Great English-Polish Dictionary] (first published 1964) and Wielki słownik polsko-angielski [The Great Polish-English Dictionary] (first published 1969), both of which have been reprinted many times subsequently.
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Who was Jan Stanisławski?
Polish lexicographer (1893–1973)
When was Jan Stanisławski born?
Jan Stanisławski was born in 1893 in Tomsk.
When did Jan Stanisławski die?
Jan Stanisławski died in 1973 in Kraków.
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Jan Stanisławski was a lexicographer, linguist, scholar of English and philologist.
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Jan Stanisławski was Polish.
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