Roman Laskowski

Roman Laskowski (February 16, 1936 – June 21, 2014) was a Polish slavist. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning, as well as a professor at Jagiellonian University and the University of Gothenburg. Laskowski was also a Solidarity activist.[1]

Roman Laskowski
Born(1936-02-16)February 16, 1936
Komarno
DiedJune 21, 2014(2014-06-21) (aged 78)
CitizenshipPolish

He is one of the most well known Slavic scholars from Poland, and specialized in Polish, Czech, and Linguistic studies.[2]

Biography

Laskowski was born on February 17, 1936, in Komarno, Ukraine. In 1940, his family was taken to Kazakhstan and went back to Poland in 1946. Roman studied at the high school in Kietrz. 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.

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.[3]

References
  1. "Professor Roman Laskowski" (in Polish). nauka-polska.pl. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
  2. Bobrowski, Ireneusz. "Roman Laskowski in Memoriam". Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Summer-Fall 2014. Retrieved 2018-02-02.
  3. "Professor Roman Laskowski dies" (in Polish). Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze. Archived from the original on 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2014-06-24.


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