Lucjan Feliks Malinowski (27 May 1839 in Jaroszewice,

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– 15 January 1898 in

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) was a Polish

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingui ...

, a researcher of regional

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s of

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, a traveller, a professor of Jagiellonian University, from the 1887 principal Seminar Slavic languages. Malinowski studied the

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of the

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and

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. He was the father of anthropologist

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Biography

Born in 1839 in a territorial family in

Jaroszewice Jaroszewice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżyce, within Lublin County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately east of Bełżyce and west of the regional capital Lublin. Roman Bartoszcze Roman ...

. He was the son of Julian Malinowski (

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) and Ewa née Górski (granddaughter of Marcin Koźmian, who was the uncle of

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, a literary critic and poet). His family lost its estate due to repression by conquerors, but also due to their own irresponsibility. He had to earn a living by education. He finished grammar-school with highest estimations from all objects. In 1861 he started Preparatory Courses in Warsaw, and the following year he joined the

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and in 1867 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology, receiving a master's degree in philological and historical sciences based on a historical dissertation: "On the conversion of Pomeranian Slavs by St. Otto ". After receiving the scholarship, he supplemented his studies in

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and

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, dealing with dialectology and conducting linguistic research in

and Spis. In 1876 he obtained the title of associate professor, and in 1877 he became the Chair of Slavonic Philology at the Jagiellonian University. On 30 June 1877 he became a member of the

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. In 1883 he obtained the title of full professor. On 4 April 1884 his only son

was born. Lucjan Malinowski died on 15 January 1898 in Krakow of a heart attack. He was buried at the

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in headquarters VIII.

Publications

*''Zarysy życia ludowego na Śląsku'' (1877). *''Powieści ludu polskiego na Śląsku''(1900-1901) *''Powieści ludu na Śląsku'' Wydawnictwo Literackie,

1953. *''Bajki śląskie'' (1884). *''Przyczynek do dziejów polsko-czeskich kontaktów naukowo kulturalnych w drugiej połowie XIX wieku'' *Projekt ''Słownika staropolskiego '' *''Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności'' *''Ueber die Oppelnsche Mundart in Oberschlesien'', Bär & Hermann,

1873 *''Ueber die Endung des Genitiv sing. masc. - neutr. der Pronominalen und zusammengesetzten Declination im Russischen und Kaschubischen'', 1874 *''Listy z podrózy etnograficznej po Śląsku'' *''Powieści spiskie'' Jagiellonian University alumni Malinowski, Lucjan Feliks Malinowski, Lucjan Felik Malinowski, Lucjan Felik Academic staff of Jagiellonian University {{Poland-linguist-stub