Zygmunt Czerny, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zygmunt Czerny

Polish philologist, specialist in French studies

Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1888

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 18-Feb-1975

Profession: university teacher, romanist, philologist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Zygmunt Bronislaw Czerny (24 July 1888 – 18 February 1975) was a Polish romance philologist (with a specialization in the French language). Before the war, he was a faculty member at the Lviv University and Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów.
During World War II, he was engaged in the underground education in Poland.
After the war, he briefly worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University and University of Wroclaw, was one of the initial faculty involved in the creation of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, and finally, from 1952, he was a faculty member of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.