Roman Laskowski (16 February 1936 – 21 June 2014) was a Polish

slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning, as well as a professor at Jagiellonian University and the

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. Laskowski was also a

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activist. He is one of the most well known Slavic scholars from Poland, and specialized in Polish, Czech, and Linguistic studies.

Biography

Laskowski was born on 17 February 1936 in Komarno, Ukraine. In 1940, his family was taken to

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and went back to Poland in 1946. Roman studied at the high school in

Kietrz Kietrz (german: Katscher, cs, Ketř) is a town in Głubczyce County __NOTOC__ Głubczyce County ( pl, powiat głubczycki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government ( powiat) in Opole Voivodeship, south-western Poland, on the ...

. He graduated in slavistics from the Jagiellonian University in 1959. He has worked at the University since 1960, and in 1981, he received the title of academic professor. In 2001 he received the title of full professor. From 1973 to 1985 he was a lecturer at the

University of Silesia in Katowice The University of Silesia in Katowice ( pl, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, UŚ) is an autonomous state-run university in Silesia Province, Katowice, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergra ...

. In 1985 he emigrated to Sweden and settled down in Gothenburg. He decided to go back to Poland in 2001. He worked again as a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University (2001–2007) and University of Social Sciences and Humanities (2008–2012). In 1995 he was decorated with Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta for dissemination of Polish culture in Sweden. He died in 2014 and was buried at the

Rakowicki Cemetery Rakowicki Cemetery (English: ; pl, Cmentarz Rakowicki) is a historic necropolis and a cultural heritage monument located on 26 Rakowicka Street in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It lies within the Administrative District No. 1 ''Stare Miasto'' ...

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