Jerzy Kuryłowicz

Jerzy Kurylowicz ( born August 26, 1895 in Stanislav, † January 28, 1978 in Kraków ) was a Polish linguist and Indo-Europeanist.

Life

Kurylowicz was the son of Roman Kurylowicz and Flora born Kleczyńska and brother of microbiologists Włodzimierz Kurylowicz. After attending high school in Lviv in 1913, he took on a business degree from the University of World Trade in Vienna, but was withdrawn a year later for the Austrian army. After the war he studied in Lviv Romance, German, Indian and Semitic Studies. One year he spent in Paris, where he, inter alia, studied with Antoine Meillet. In 1929 he was appointed professor of Indo-European Studies and Romance Languages ​​at the University of Lemberg.

After the forced resettlement of Lviv in 1946 he became Professor of General Linguistics in Wrocław. Since 1948 until his retirement he was a professor of the same compartment at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

From 1938 he was a member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności, from 1952 the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Laryngeal and Hittite

Ferdinand de Saussure is the inventor of the laryngeal theory. That this theory is now generally accepted, not least due to Jerzy Kurylowicz and his studies on the Hittite. In 1917, the Hittite clay tablets, which were discovered in what is now Turkey about 100 years ago, deciphered, four years after Saussure's death. Kurylowicz has identified Hittite as Indo-European language and also found in Hittite words which have a Laryngallaut where de Saussure postulated it.

Awards (excerpt)

Works

  • Études indoeuropéennes. Kraków 1935.
  • L' accentuation des langues indo - européennes. Kraków 1952. (2nd edition 1958)
  • L' apophonie en indo - européen. Kraków 1956.
  • L' s apophonie sémitique. Kraków 1962.
  • The inflectional categories of Indo-European. Heidelberg 1964.
  • Indo-European (together with Manfred Mayrhofer ) grammar. Heidelberg 1968 ff
  • Studies in Semitic grammar and metrics. Wrocław 1972.
  • Esquisses linguistiques. Munich 1973, 1975.
  • Metric and language history. Wrocław 1975.
  • Problèmes de linguistique indo - européenne. Wrocław 1977.
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