Stanislaw Schayer (born May 8, 1899 in
Sędziszów
Sędziszów is a town in Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,830 inhabitants (2004). The town belongs to Lesser Poland.
Transport
Sędziszów railway station is a stop for both the Polskie Koleje Państwowe, PKP int ...
, Poland, died December 1, 1941 in
Otwock
Otwock is a city in east-central Poland, some southeast of Warsaw, with 44,635 inhabitants (2019). Otwock is a part of the Warsaw Agglomeration. It is situated on the right bank of Vistula River below the mouth of Swider River. Otwock is hom ...
, Poland) was a linguist, Indologist, philosopher, professor at the
University of Warsaw
The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields o ...
. In 1922, he founded, and was the first director, of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw.
[''Smolna 30. Gimnazjum im. Jana Zamoyskiego'' Warszawa: PIW, 1989, wspomnienie na s. 148 i 156.] He was a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Warsaw Scientific Society.
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Indologists by nationality
20th-century Polish philosophers
University of Warsaw faculty
1899 births
1941 deaths
Polish translators
People from Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
20th-century translators
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