About Kazimierz Rymut
Lived 1935 – 2006 (aged 70). Kazimierz Rymut was a Polish linguist, professor, philologist and polonist.
Kazimierz Rymut (18 December 1935 in Chechły near Ropczyce - 14 November 2006, Kraków) was a Polish linguist, onomastician. His area of expertise was the etymology of towns and geographical features in Poland.
Biography He studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University; He got his doctorate in 1968, habilitated in 1972. From 1979, he worked as an associate professor. He was long-standing director the Polish Onomastics Department at the Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, the editor-in-chief of the "Onomastica" magazine, chairman of the Slavonic Onomastic Commission in the International Committee of Slavs, and in the years 1986–2004 the chairman of the Commission for Determining the Names of Places and Physiographic Objects at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration. He was buried at the cemetery in Brzezie on November 17, 2006.
Works
Nazwy miejscowe północnej części dawnego woj. krakowskiego, 1967 Patronimiczne nazwy miejscowe w Małopolsce,1971 Słowotwórstwo polskich patronimicznych nazw miejscowych z przyrostkiem (ov)itjo- na tle zachodniosłowiańskim, 1973 Hydronimia dorzecza Orawy (together with M. Majtán), 1985 Nazwy miejscowe Polski – słownik nazw miejscowych Polski, Nazwy miast Polski – słownik nazw miast Polski, 1987 Nazwiska Polaków. Słownik historyczno-etymologiczny, 1991
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Who was Kazimierz Rymut?
Polish linguist (1935–2006)
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Kazimierz Rymut was born on 18 December 1935 in Chechły.
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Kazimierz Rymut died on 14 November 2006 in Kraków.
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Kazimierz Rymut was a linguist, professor, philologist and polonist.
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Kazimierz Rymut was Polish.
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