Lucjan Malinowski


Lucjan Feliks Malinowski was a Polish linguist, traveller, professor of Jagiellonian University, from the 1887 principal Seminar Slavic languages. He studied the history of the Polish language, regional dialects of Silesia, and etymology.

Biography

Born in 1839 in a landed gentry family in Jaroszewice. He was the son of Julian Malinowski and Ewa née Górski. His family had lost its estate, and Malinowski had to earn a living by education.
He finished grammar-school with highest estimations from all objects. In 1861 he started Preparatory Courses in Warsaw, and the following year he joined the Warsaw School of Economics and in 1867 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology, receiving a master's degree in philological and historical sciences based on a historical dissertation: "On the conversion of Pomeranian Slavs by St. Otto ". After receiving the scholarship, he supplemented his studies in Berlin, Jena, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Leipzig, dealing with dialectology and conducting linguistic research in Silesia and Spis.
In 1876 he obtained the title of associate professor, and in 1877 he became the Chair of Slavonic Philology at the Jagiellonian University. On June 30, 1877 he became a member of the Academy of Learning. In 1883 he obtained the title of full professor.
On April 4, 1884, his only son Bronisław Malinowski was born. Lucjan Malinowski died on January 15, 1898 in Krakow of a heart attack. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery in headquarters VIII.

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