Witold Doroszewski (1899–1976) was a Polish

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary, dictionaries. * The ...

and

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

Career

In 1936, he served as the first professor of Polish at the

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. He left the following year to continue teaching at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

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1899 births 1976 deaths Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences Polish lexicographers Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland) University of Warsaw alumni Academic staff of the University of Warsaw University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty 20th-century Polish linguists Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland) 20th-century lexicographers {{Poland-bio-stub