Mikołaj Rudnicki - (born 6 December 1881 in
Sokołów Podlaski - died 28 June 1978 in
Puszczykowo
Puszczykowo (german: Puszczykowo; Unterberg) is a town in Poznań County, Poland, with 9,331 inhabitants (as of 2015). It is located about south of Poznań, the area is surrounded by the Wielkopolski National Park (located within the park buff ...
) was a Polish linguist. He finished his studies in
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...
. In 1911 he became a
docent
The title of docent is conferred by some European universities to denote a specific academic appointment within a set structure of academic ranks at or below the full professor rank, similar to a British readership, a French " ''maître de con ...
in Indoeuropean linguistics.
In 1919 he became a professor at
Uniwersytet Poznański. From 1945 he was a member of the
Polish Academy of Learning
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 scie ...
.
He published many works on psycho-phonetic issues:
* ''Studia psychofonetyczne''
* ''Przyczynki do gramatyki i słownika narzecza słowiańskiego'' (1913)
* ''Wykształcenie językowe w życiu i w szkole'' (1920)
* ''Z dziejów polskiej myśli językowej i wychowania'' (1921)
* ''Prawo identyfikacji wyobrażeń niedostatecznie różnych'' (1927)
* ''Językoznawstwo polskie w dobie Oświecenia'' (1956)
* ''Prasłowiańszczyzna''
* ''Lechia Polska'' (1959–1961)
He also published many literature works and dramas using the
pen names: M.S. Rozwar and E. Meser.
Mikołaj Rudnicki proved that the ancestry of name
Schivelbein comes from ''Skwielbin'' or ''Skwilbin'', which means ''disc on swamp''.
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Sources
Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN (1962–1969)
Koerner, E. F. K. and A. J. Szwedek (eds)(2001)Towards a history of linguistics in Poland: from the early beginnings to the end of the twentieth century, Benjamins, John Publishing Company - Part II: Portraits of Major Polish Linguists. Chapter 8 Mikołaj Rudnicki’s General Linguistic Conceptions by Jerzy Bańczerowski.
External links
* http://univ.gda.pl/~filklin/artCyb2.htm
References
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1881 births
1978 deaths
Linguists from Poland
20th-century linguists