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

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, Poland) was a linguist, Indologist, philosopher, professor at the

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. 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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