Karol Dejna (10 November, 1911 – 15 April, 2004) was a Polish linguist. In 1930 he graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki State Secondary School in

Tarnopol Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...

. He studied Polish philology at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, from which he graduated in 1935. Until 1941 he worked as a teacher in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

secondary schools. From 1945 associated with the University of Łódź, initially as an assistant, then assistant professor (1947 defended his doctorate, 1952 habilitated), deputy professor (1951–1954) and professor (from 1954). From 1954 he was an associate professor, and from 1962 a full professor. In 1983 he became a correspondent member of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

, and in 1989 a full member of the Academy. From 1993 a correspondent member of the

Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning ( pl, Polska Akademia Umiejętności), headquartered in Kraków and founded in 1872, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland having the nature of an academy of scien ...

. At the University of Łódź, he was, inter alia, the position of vice-rector (1956–1959), deputy director of the Institute of Polish Philology (1970–1979), in 1988 he was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa. From 1956, a member of the Linguistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, for many years (from 1976) chairman of the Dialectological Committee. In the years 1985–1989 he was the deputy chairman of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the Łódź Scientific Society, chairman of the First Department of this association, vice-president and editor of the "Dissertations of the Language Commission of the Łódź Scientific Society". He was a laureate of departmental awards, the City of Łódź Award (1982), and the scientific award of the Łódź Scientific Society (1985); he was also awarded the Commander's Cross of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on al ...

, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Medal of the National Education Commission and the honorary title of Merit Teacher of the Polish People's Republic.''Kto jest kim w Polsce 1989'', Wydawnictwo Interpress, Warszawa 1989, str. 216-217 In his scientific work he dealt with Slavic dialectology. He was the author of over 100 scientific works, including: * ''Polsko-laskie pogranicze językowe na terenie Polski'' (1951-1952) * ''Gwary ukraińskie Tarnopolszczyzny'' (1957) * ''Atlas gwarowy województwa kieleckiego'' (1962-1968) * ''Dialekty polskie'' (1973) * ''Atlas polskich innowacji dialektalnych'' (1981) * ''Atlas gwar polskich. Kwestionariusz - notatnik'' (1987) * ''Słownik gwary czeskiej mieszkańców Kucowa'' (1990) * ''Z zagadnień ewolucji oraz interferencji językowej'' (1991)

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1911 births 2004 deaths People from Ternopil Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria :University of Lviv alumni University of Łódź faculty Linguists from Poland 20th-century linguists {{Poland-linguist-stub