Witold Taszycki (20 June 1898 – 9 August 1979) was a Polishlinguist. He specialized in Polishonomastics andhistorical dialectology.[1][2]
Taszycki was born on 20 June 1898 inZagórzany,Austria-Hungary. Between 1917 and 1921, he was a student of Polish and Slavic philology atJagiellonian University, where he started to work as an assistant after defending his doctorate in 1922. He received his postdoctoral degree in 1925. He was employed as a lecturer atStefan Batory University of Wilno (nowVilnius,Lithuania) and awarded a professorship atJan Kazimierz University of Lwów (nowLviv,Ukraine). He remained in Lwów after the outbreak ofWorld War II and was involved insecret university teaching.[2]
In the post-war period, he helped to organize Slavic and Polish studies atNicolaus Copernicus University inToruń and theUniversity of Wrocław, and participated in works of theCommission for the Determination of Place Names. In 1946 he was awarded a professorship at Jagiellonian University, where he chaired the departments of Slavonic Onomastics, Old Polish Philology, and Polish Language. He was a member of thePolish Academy of Arts and Sciences and thePolish Academy of Sciences.[2]
Taszycki is valued for his contributions to the development of onomastic research in Poland. He was an expert onOld Polish and had studied nearly all known manuscripts and publications written in that language.[2]
Among his most notable works is "Dictionary of Old Polish Personal Names". It contains information on Polishnomenclature gathered from sources ranging from the oldest known records to the start of the 16h century.[2] "An orthographic dictionary and the rules of Polish spelling", co-authored by Taszycki with Stanisław Jodłowski, was the most widely used Polish orthographic dictionary in the interwar period.[3]
Taszycki died on 9 August 1979 inKraków.[2]
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