GIELECKI, Wojciech Marceli. Krzeszowice, Lesser Poland 23.10.1876 — Cracow 11.9.1957. Polish Librarian and Classical Scholar. Studies at Cracow, Ph.D. 1901. Librarian in Cracow University. Married. Publications: Pomysły filozoficzne w hymnach Rig-Vedy. 102 p. Cracow 1910, 152 p. Cracow 1911. – Unrelevant publications. Sources: *K. Tatarowicz, Rocz. Bibl. 1958, 593f.; stray notes in Internet.
HEINZ, Adam. Cracow 20.11.1914 — Cracow 1.6.1984. Polish IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Cracow. After school in Cracow in 1934-46 studies of classics and IE under Kuryłowicz et al. at Lwów (Lviv). Ph.D. 1950 Cracow, under Safarewicz. In 1959-70 taught Latin, Greek and Slavonic at Cracow Pedagogical University. From…
SAFAREWICZ, Jan. Dyneburg (Daugavpils in Latvia) 8.2.1904 — Cracow 9.4.1992. Polish IE Linguist. Professor at Krakow. Son of tax official, lost early his parents, tax official Romuald Safarewicz and Wanda Golińska, and grew up with his uncle, Alexander Safarewicz (1876–1936), bacteriologist and Professor of Medicine at Wilno (Vilnius), studied there…
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…
WILLMAN-GRABOWSKA, Helena Antonina Maria. Warsaw 4.1.1870 — Cracow 31.10.1957. Polish Indologist. Professor in Crakow. 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…
ROZWADOWSKI, Jan Michał. Czarna near Tarnów 7.12.1867 — Warsaw 14.3.1935. Polish IE and Slavic Linguist and Gipsy Scholar. Professor in Cracow. Son of railway engineer Juliusz Rozwadowski. Studies of classics at Cracow, Ph.D. 1891. In 1891-95 further studies at Leipzig under Brugman and Leskien. From 1897 PD and from 1899…
POBOŻNIAK, Tadeusz. Cracow 1910 — 26.1.1991 (when 80). Polish Indologist and Gipsy Scholar. Professor in Cracow. Born in a poor family, his father served in City Council guard.Educated in Cracow. Studied at Cracow IE (under Rozwadowski) and Germanic, then also Sanskrit under Willman-Grabowska. M.A. 1938 with a diss. on conjunctive…
OTRĘBSKI, Jan Szczepan. Silica, Silesia 8.12.1889 — Poznań 25.4.1971. Polish IE and Balto-Slavic Scholar. Professor in Wilno (Vilnius) and Poznań. Son of Stanisław Otrębski and Helena Gasińska. Educated in Kielce, studies at Warsaw (briefly medicine, after few months Slavic, graduated 1913) and Leipzig (Windisch, Leskien and Brugmann). During WW I…
MILEWSKI, Tadeusz. Kołomyja (Kolomija, Ukraine) 17.5.1906 — Cracow 5.3.1966. Polish IE, Slavic, Amerindian and General Linguist. Professor in Cracow. Son of Feliks Milewski, a physician, and Justyna Wojakowska. In 1925-29 studies of Slavic at Lwów (L’viv), Ph.D. 1929 there (diss. on Polabian). In 1929-31 further studies of IE and Sanskrit…
MAŃKOWSKI, Leon (von / L. Mańkowski h. Zaremba). Podolia 6.11.1858 — Cracow 18.4.1909. Polish (Austrian) Indologist. Professor in Cracow. Son of Walery Mańkowski and Tekla Natalia Łaźnińska. Gymnasium in Berlin and Dresden. After law studies at Leipzig started Slavonic and Indology at Breslau (Stenzler, Hillebrandt), then from 1891 under Bühler…