GAWROŃSKI, Andrzej. Geneva 20.6.1885 — Jósefów near Warsaw 11.1.1927. Polish Indologist. Professor in Lwów. Son of the historian Franciszek Rawita-G. (1845–1930) and —> Antonina Gawrońska, born in Switzerland during his parents’ exile, they returned in 1887. Educated in Warsaw and Lwów (now L’viv in Ukraina), in 1903-05 studies at Lwów…
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.…
KURYŁOWICZ, Jerzy. Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine) 26.8.1895 — Cracow 28.1.1978. Polish IE Scholar. Professor in Lwów (L’viv) and Cracow. Born in what was then the Polish part of Austro-Hungarian empire, son of Roman K. and Flora Kleczyńska. Gymnasium in Lemberg (L’viv). In 1913-14 and again 1918-20 studies at commercial…
KRČEK, Franciszek. Lemberg (L’viv) 8.10.1869 — Novgorod 12.3.1916. Polish Slavist also interested in IE. Docent in Lemberg (L’viv). Son of a Czech father and Polish mother. Studied at Lemberg, Ph.D. 1893. Further studies at Prague (Gebauer, Zubatý), Leipzig and Berlin. PD 1909 Lemberg, in Slavonic Philology. Married Aleksandra Lipnicka. Publications:…
BLATT, Gustaw (Gerszon). Jarosław 15.2.1858 — Lwów (L’viv) 17.9.1916. Polish Linguist (IE and Slavic). Studies of classical and Slavic philology at Krakow, student of Lucjan Malinowski. Ph.D. there 1893. Further studies of IE and Sanskrit at Leipzig under Brugmann, Windisch and Leskien. Teacher at Jewish gymnasium in Brody, from 1901…