About Roman Zawiliński
Lived 1855 – 1932 (aged 77). Roman Zawiliński was a Polish anthropologist, linguist, ethnographer, dictionary author, slavist and secondary school teacher.
Roman Zawiliński (1855 in Brzeziny (now in Subcarpathian Voivodeship) – 12 October 1932 in Kraków) was a Polish linguist, pedagogue and ethnographer. The founder and editor of Poradnik Językowy.
His main fields of study was Lesser Polish dialect, didactics, Polish language grammar, ethnography, synonyms dictionary. Author of publications Brzeziniacy (1881), Dobór wyrazów. Słownik wyrazów bliskoznacznych i jednoznacznych... (1926).
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Who was Roman Zawiliński?
linguist, pedagogue, ethnographer (1855-1932)
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Roman Zawiliński was born on 1 March 1855 in Brzeziny, Podkarpackie Voivodeship.
When did Roman Zawiliński die?
Roman Zawiliński died on 12 October 1932 in Kraków.
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Roman Zawiliński was an anthropologist, linguist, ethnographer, dictionary author, slavist and secondary school teacher.
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Roman Zawiliński was Polish.
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