Mikolaj Rudnicki - (born 6 December 1881 in Sokolów Podlaski - died 28 June 1978 in Puszczykowo) was a Polish linguist.
He finished his studies in Kraków.
In 1911 he became a docent in Indoeuropean linguistics.
In 1919 he became a professor at Uniwersytet Poznanski.
From 1945 he was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
He published many works about psycho-phonetic issues:
Studia psychofonetyczne
Przyczynki do gramatyki i slownika narzecza slowianskiego (1913)
Wyksztalcenie jezykowe w zyciu i w szkole (1920)
Z dziejów polskiej mysli jezykowej i wychowania (1921)
Prawo identyfikacji wyobrazen niedostatecznie róznych (1927)
Jezykoznawstwo polskie w dobie Oswiecenia (1956)
Praslowianszczyzna
Lechia Polska (1959–1961)He also published many literature works and dramas as alias: M.S.
Rozwar and E.
Meser.
Mikolaj Rudnicki proved that the ancestry of name Schivelbein comes from Skwielbin or Skwilbin, which means disc on swamp.