About Witold Taszycki
Lived 1898 – 1979 (aged 81). Witold Taszycki was a Polish linguist, philologist and polonist.
Witold Taszycki (20 June 1898 – 9 August 1979) was a Polish linguist. He specialized in Polish onomastics and historical dialectology.
In the post-war period, he helped to organize Slavic and Polish studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the University of Wrocław, and participated in works of the Commission for the Determination of Place Names. In 1946 he was awarded a professorship at Jagiellonian University, where he chaired the departments of Slavonic Onomastics, Old Polish Philology, and Polish Language. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Taszycki died on 9 August 1979 in Kraków.
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Poliah linguist (1898-1979)
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Witold Taszycki was born on 20 June 1898 in Zagórzany.
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Witold Taszycki died on 8 August 1979 in Kraków.
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Witold Taszycki was a linguist, philologist and polonist.
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Witold Taszycki was Polish.
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