Lucjan Malinowski

Lucjan Feliks Malinowski (27 May 1839 in Jaroszewice, Poland – 15 January 1898 in Kraków) was a Polish linguist, traveller, professor of Jagiellonian University, from the 1887 principal Seminar Slavic languages. He studied the history of the Polish language, regional dialects of Silesia, and etymology.

Lucjan Feliks Malinowski
Lucjan Malinowski
Born	(1839-05-27)May 27, 1839 Jaroszewice, Poland
Died	January 15, 1898(1898-01-15) (aged 58) Kraków, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Jagiellonian University
Scientific career
Fields	linguist

Biography

Born in 1839 in a landed gentry family in Jaroszewice. He was the son of Julian Malinowski (Pobóg coat of arms) and Ewa née Górski (granddaughter of Marcin Koźmian, who was the uncle of Kajetan Koźman, a literary critic and poet). His family had lost its estate, and Malinowski 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 Warsaw School of Economics 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 Berlin, Jena, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Leipzig, dealing with dialectology and conducting linguistic research in Silesia 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 June 30, 1877 he became a member of the Academy of Learning. In 1883 he obtained the title of full professor.

On April 4, 1884, his only son Bronisław Malinowski was born. Lucjan Malinowski died on January 15, 1898 in Krakow of a heart attack. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery in headquarters VIII.

Publications

• Zarysy życia ludowego na Śląsku (1877).
• Powieści ludu polskiego na Śląsku(1900-1901)
• Powieści ludu na Śląsku Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 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, Leipzig 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