Mikołaj Rudnicki
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Mikołaj Rudnicki - was a Polish linguist. He finished his studies in Kraków
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

. In 1911 he became a docent
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 in Indoeuropean linguistics.

In 1919 he became a professor at Uniwersytet Poznański. From 1945 he was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning
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The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning , headquartered in Kraków, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland having the nature of an academy of sciences....

.

He published many works about psycho-phonetic issues:
  • Studia psychofonetyczne
  • Przyczynki do gramatyki i słownika narzecza słowiańskiego (1913)
  • Wykształcenie językowe w życiu i w szkole (1920)
  • Z dziejów polskiej myśli językowej i wychowania (1921)
  • Prawo identyfikacji wyobrażeń niedostatecznie różnych (1927)
  • Językoznawstwo polskie w dobie Oświecenia (1956)
  • Prasłowiańszczyzna
  • Lechia Polska (1959–1961)


He also published many literature works and dramas as alias: M.S. Rozwar and E. Meser.

Mikołaj Rudnicki proved that the ancestry of name Schivelbein comes from Skwielbin or Skwilbin, which means disc on swamp.

Sources

Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN (1962–1969)

Koerner, E. F. K. and A. J. Szwedek (eds)(2001)Towards a history of linguistics in Poland: from the early beginnings to the end of the twentieth century, Benjamins, John Publishing Company - Part II: Portraits of Major Polish Linguists. Chapter 8 Mikołaj Rudnicki’s General Linguistic Conceptions by Jerzy Bańczerowski.
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