Dorota Elżbieta Simonides (born 1928
Janów) - Polish
folklorist and politician. Professor emerita of the Faculty of Philology,
Opole University
The University of Opole ( pl, Uniwersytet Opolski) is a public university in the city of Opole. It was founded in 1994 from a merger of two parallel educational institutions. The university has 17,500 students completing 32 academic majors and 53 ...
. She lost her library (5 000 volumes) during the
1997 Central European flood
The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava (river), Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, taking the lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 ...
.
References
External links
The Polish Science Database
1928 births
Polish folklorists
Academic staff of the University of Wrocław
Living people
Herder Prize recipients
Women folklorists
Members of the Polish Ethnological Society
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