Kazimierz Rymut
Polish linguist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polish linguist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kazimierz Rymut (18 December 1935 in Chechły near Ropczyce - 14 November 2006, Kraków) was a Polish linguist, onomastician. His area of expertise was the etymology of towns and geographical features in Poland.
Kazimierz Rymut | |
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Born | Chechły | December 18, 1935
Died | November 14, 2006 70) | (aged
Nationality | Polish |
Occupation(s) | linguist, onomastician |
He studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University; He got his doctorate in 1968, habilitated in 1972. From 1979, he worked as an associate professor. He was long-standing director the Polish Onomastics Department at the Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, the editor-in-chief of the "Onomastica" magazine, chairman of the Slavonic Onomastic Commission in the International Committee of Slavs, and in the years 1986–2004 the chairman of the Commission for Determining the Names of Places and Physiographic Objects at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration. He was buried at the cemetery in Brzezie on November 17, 2006.
Popular works by Kazimierz Rymut include:
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