PORZEZIŃSKI, Wiktor Jan (Russian Viktor Karlovič Poržezinskij). Moršansk (or Temnikovo), Russia 23.7.(4.8.)1870 — Warsaw 12.4.1929. Polish Baltic and IE Linguist. Born in a Roman Catholic noble family, son of Karel P., educated in Moscow. From 1892 studies at Moscow under Fortunatov. Dr. 1903. From 1895 or 1901 taught as PD at Moscow, in 1903-21 as Professor of IE linguistics (ord. 1905). Professor of IE Linguistics at Lublin 1922-29 and at Warsaw in 1921 and 1924-25. Among his students in Moscow were Trubetzkoy, M. N. Peterson and R. Jakobson. Taught Sanskrit in Warsaw in the 1920s.
Publications: K istorii form sprjaženija v baltijskih jazykov. 1901; Sravnitel’naja grammatika slavjanskih jazykov. 1. M. 1914; and other publications on Baltic and Slavic.
– Vvedenie v jazykovedenie. M. 1907, 4th ed. 1916, German tr. Einleitung in die Sprachwissenschaft. 229 p. Lp. 1910.
Sources: W. Doroszewski, Idg. Jb. 14, 1930, 371-374 with bibliography; M. Kaczmarkowski, Lex. gramm. 1996, 745f.; Russian Vikipedija with photo.
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