RECZEK, Józef. Szczepanów, Lesser Poland 16.2.1936 — Ibid. 13.2.1988. Polish Indo-European, Slavonic and Iranian Linguist. Son of Alojzy Reczek and Anna Kargol. Studies at Cracow in 1953-59 (i.al. under Kuryłowicz, Pobożniak and T. Milewski). From 1958 one of the editors of Słownik staropolski. Ph.D. 1967 (diss. on Slavonic), from 1972 taught linguistics at…
MICHALSKI(-IWIEŃSKI), Stanisław Franciszek. Tarnogród, prov. Lublin 29.1.1881 — Łodz 8.8.1961. Polish Indologist. Professor in Łodz. Son of Seweryn Michalski, a physician, and Stanisława Smalski. Matriculated 1904 from Biała Siedlecka. Studies at Warsaw, then Indology at Vienna (L. v. Schroeder and P. Kretschmer), Ph.D. 1912. Then briefly further studies at Göttingen…
STERNBACH, Ludwik. Cracow 12.12.1910 — Paris 25.3.1981. Polish Indologist. Son of lawyer Edward Sternbach and Clara Amster, a Jewish family. From 1927 studied law at Cracow, dr.iuris 1931. LL.D. 1933. Also studied Indology at Lwów (under Stasiak) and Cracow (Willman-Grabowska, 1933-38 her Assistant). Ph.D. 1938. In 1936-39 also practised law…
STASIAK, Stefan Bołeslaw. Warsaw 22.2.1884 — London 9.2.1962. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lwów (now L’viv in Ukraina). Son of Adam Stasiak and Waleria Tuchowska. Studies of Philosophy, then of Indology at Vienna (under L. von Schroeder), Munich (Simon), Zürich (Kaegi) and Paris. Ph.D. with a dissertation on the unicorn legend.…
SOWA, Rudolf von. Lemberg (now L’viv, Ukraine) 30.1.1853 — Brünn (Brno in Czech) 29.9.1900. Austrian (of Poland) Schoolteacher, Linguist and Gipsy Scholar. Son of the elder Rudolf von Sowa and Rosa Sowowá (née Arnoldová). Gymnasium in Brünn (Brno), from 1870 studies at Vienna, Innsbruck and Cracow. Ph.D. 1878 Cracow. Gymnasium Professor…
ŚMIESZEK, Antoni Józef. 22.5.1881 — 1943. Polish Oriental Scholar. Ph.D. 1905 Cracow. Further studies at Munich, Berlin and London. From 1921 Assistant Professor at Poznań, 1922 eo. and 1925 ord. of Ancient Near East and Sanskrit, but in 1935 the Minister of Education decided to put an end to Oriental…
SŁUSZKIEWICZ, Eugeniusz Leonard. Jarosław in South-Eastern Poland 6.11.1901 — Warsaw 28.8.1981. Polish Indologist and Armenologist. Professor in Warsaw. Son of Franciszek Słuszkiewicz (1875–1944), a gymnasium teacher, and Severyna Solon (d. 1904). Educated at gymnasium in Bochnia. Studied from 1919 at Cracow classical philology, Slavistics, Germanic and IE linguistics, learnt Sanskrit…
SKURZAK, Ludwik. Cieszanów near Rzeszów 18.11.1900 — Wrocław 26.2.1979. Polish Indologist. Born in a farmer family. Studied at the Jan Kazimir University in Lwów (L’viv, under Stasiak), M.A. 1932. From 1933 further studies of Indology in Paris, at É.P.H.É. and Collège de France under Renou, Przyluski and J. Bloch. 1937…
SCHAYER, Stanisław. Sędziszów, Malopolski 8.5.1899 — Otwock near Warsaw 1.12.1941. Polish Indologist. Professor in Warsaw. Son of Antoni and Maria Schayer. From 1916 studies at Warsaw, then soon philosophy and Indology at Heidelberg (under Liebich and Walleser) and Freiburg i.Br. (E. Leumann, Husserl). Ph.D. 1921 Freiburg. Further studies at Munich…
WILLMAN-GRABOWSKA, Helena Antonina Maria. Warsaw 4.1.1870 — Cracow 31.10.1957. Polish Indologist. Professor in Krakow. Daughter of Józef Wojciech Grabowski (1818–1892) and Elżbieta Lipińska (1848–1908). After school in Warsaw she became a schoolteacher in 1887 (when 17). Soon active in anti-Russian movement. Women were then not allowed to the university, but…