Zbigniew Gołąb (16 March 1923, in

Nowy Targ Nowy Targ (Officially: ''Royal Free city of Nowy Targ'', Yiddish: ''Naymark'', Goral Dialect: ''Miasto'') is a town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is located in the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin at the foot of the Gorce Mounta ...

– 24 March 1994, in

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) was a Polish-American

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and

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. He was described as "one of the world's greatest experts on the

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and the leading expert on Macedonian– Arumanian contact." He was active during the World War II Resistance Movement, after which he joined the guerrilla war against the Germans in 1944. He was imprisoned that same year, but managed to escape prior to the liberation of

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by the

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. In 1948–49 he was imprisoned for one year by the communist authorities, but was eventually released.Browne 1994 He received his

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from the

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in 1947 and his

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at the Jagiellonian University in 1958. He served as a professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin during 1952–1961, and also at the Slavic Institute of the

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(1955–1961). Afterward he emigrated to the United States where he taught Slavic languages at the

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from 1962 until his retirement in 1993 as

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. He was elected as a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1972. His research includes a study of the Macedonian dialects of

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and Visoka (published in '' Makedonski jazik''), his habilitation on Balkan conditionals (Cracow, 1964), a monograph on the Arumanian dialect of Krushevo (1984),Zbigniew Gołąb, ''The Arumanian Dialect of Kruševo, SR Macedonia'' (Skopje: MANU, 1984). and his last book: ''The Origins of the Slavs: A Linguist's View'' (Columbus, 1992). He also co-edited a dictionary of linguistic terminology (Warsaw, 1968) and was the author of more than 70 articles and reviews.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Golab, Zbigniew 1923 births 1994 deaths People from Nowy Targ Linguists from the United States Linguists from Poland Polish emigrants to the United States Polish people of World War II University of Wrocław alumni Jagiellonian University alumni John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin faculty University of Chicago faculty 20th-century linguists