Stanisław Urbańczyk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stanisław Urbańczyk

Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1909

Place of Birth: Kwaczała, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 23-Oct-2001

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Stanislaw Urbanczyk (1909–2001) was a Polish linguist and academic, a professor at the universities of Torun, Poznan and Kraków.
He was the head of the Institute of the Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1973–79.Stanislaw Urbanczyk was born in a peasant family of Kwaczala.
He completed 4-class elementary school in Kwaczala and started learning in St.
Anne's Secondary School (today I Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace im.
Bartlomieja Nowodworskiego w Krakowie).
In the years 1929-1934 he studied Polish and Slavic philology at the Jagiellonian University.
In 1937 he became an academic teacher.
Among his students was young Karol Wojtyla, later the pope John Paul II.
In 1939 he was arrested by the Nazis during Sonderaktion Krakau and imprisoned in concentration camps in Sachsenhausen and Dachau.He is the author of many books, articles and reviews.
Among his scholarly interests were synchronical and diachronical Polish grammar, dialectology, history of language, Slavic native religion and mythology, biblical translation and influence of Czech unto Polish in Middle Ages.