Stanisław Kozierowski (1874 – 1949) was a Polish

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priest and historian.

Biography

Kozierowski was born in Tremessen (

Province of Posen The Province of Posen (german: Provinz Posen, pl, Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920. Posen was established in 1848 following the Greater Poland Uprising as a successor to the Grand Duchy of Posen, w ...

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)(today Trzemeszno,

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). He was a Catholic priest, professor and co-founder of the

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in 1919, also a member of the

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(''Polska Akademia Umiejętności''). Kozierowski was specialised on the history of

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and the related aspects of

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und

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. His most influential publication was the two-volume ''Atlas nazw geograficznych Słowiańszczyzny Zachodniej'' (Atlas of Geographical Names of Western Slavs), covering the toponym history of modern North-Western Poland and North-Eastern Germany. After

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this atlas was often used by the

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to determine Polish names for places and settlements in the

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.Jun Yoshioka: Imagining Their Lands as Ours: Place Name Changes on Ex-German Territories in Poland after World War II
/ref> Kozierowski died in 1949 in Winna Góra.

Publications

*''Badania nazw topograficznych dzisiejszej archidyecezyi gnieźnieńskiej.'' (Poznań 1914) *''Badania nazw topograficznych dzisiejszej archidyecezyi poznańskiej. Tom I A-O'' (Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań 1916) *''Badania nazw topograficznych dzisiejszej archidyecezyi poznańskiej. Tom II P-Ż. Dodatek A-Ż'' (Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań 1916) *''Badania nazw topograficznych na obszarze dawnej zachodniej i środkowej Wielkopolski. Tom 1 A-Ł'' (Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań 1921) *''Badania nazw topograficznych na obszarze dawnej zachodniej i środkowej Wielkopolski. Tom 2 M-Z'' (Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań 1922) *''Pierwotne osiedlenie ziemi gnieźnieńskiej wraz z Pałukami w świetle nazw geograficznych i charakterystycznych imion rycerskich.'' (In: Slavia Occidentalis, t. III-IV 1923-24, s. 1-129. Uniwersytet Poznański, Poznań 1924) *''Pierwotne osiedlenie dorzecza Warty od Koła do Ujścia w świetle nazw geograficznych.'' (In: Slavia Occidentalis, t. V 1926, s. 112-246. Uniwersytet Poznański, Poznań 1926) *''Pierwotne osiedlenie pogranicza wielkopolsko-śląskiego między Obrą i Odrą a Wartą i Bobrem w świetle nazw geograficznych.'' (In: Slavia Occidentalis, t. VII 1928, s. 172-329. Uniwersytet Poznański, Poznań 1928) *''Atlas nazw geograficznych Słowiańszczyzny Zachodniej. Zeszyt I'' (Słupsk, Kołobrzeg, Szczecin, Piła; Nauka i Praca, Poznań 1934; Wydanie 2, Instytut Zachodni, Poznań 1945; Reprint, Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie, Szczecin 1990) *''Atlas nazw geograficznych Słowiańszczyzny Zachodniej. Zesz. II B'' (Nauka i Praca, Poznań 1935) *''Atlas nazw geograficznych Słowiańszczyzny Zachodniej. Zesz. II A'' (Strzałów, Utyń, Strzelce Nowe, Zwierzyn; Nauka i Praca, Poznań 1937)

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