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Hanna Popowska-Taborska

Hanna Popowska-Taborska (March 22, 1930 – December 6, 2022) was a Polish linguist and researcher of Kashubians.

Biography

Born as daughter of pediatrics professors. In 1952 she graduated in linguistics from the University of Lodz. She received her doctorate (1959) and habilitation (1966) from the University of Warsaw. In 1972 she received the title of associate professor, and seven years later a full professor. In the 1950s she does field research among the Kashubian and Slovinian population.

Author and co-author of many works devoted to Kashubian language, including the multi-volume Kashubian Language Atlas and Kashubian Etymological Dictionary. In her opinion, Słowiński Oaths from Wierzchocina: "...we owe a significant number of lexical Kashubisms...". In 1979, she was awarded the Medal for her scientific work.

On August 23, 1980, she joined the appeal 64 of scholars, writers, and publicists to the communist authorities to start a dialogue with striking workers.

In 1997, she received the Bernard Chrzanowski Medal "Moved the Wind from the Sea". In 1999 she was honored with the title of doctor honoris causa University of Gdańsk. In 2002 she received the Officer's Cross Order of Polonia Restituta.

Selected works

  • The central issue of Kashubian vocalism (Kashubian change ę > i and Ä­, y, Å­ > ë), Ossoliński National Institute, Wrocław 1961.
  • Language atlas of Kashubia and neighboring dialects, prepared by the Team of the Department of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, vol. I-VI under the direction of Z. Stieber; vol. VII-XV under H. Popowska-Taborska, Wrocław 1964–1978.
  • Bartłomiej z Bydgoszczy. Polish Lexicographer of the First Half of the 16th Century, Ossolineum, Wrocław 1977 (co-author: Irena Kwilecka)
  • Kashubian Region: Outline of History, PWN, Warsaw 1980.
  • From the Old Divisions of Slavdom: Slavic Alternation (j)e-: o-, Wrocław 1984.
  • Sketches from Kashubia: History, Monuments, Vocabulary, Gdańsk 1986.
  • Early History of the Slavs in the Light of Their Language, Wrocław 1991.
  • Kashubian Lexicon in the Slavic Background, Warsaw 1996 (together with W. Boryś).
  • Etymological Dictionary of Kashubia, vol. I-V, Warsaw 1994-2006 (with W. Boryś).
  • Slavic Dialectal Dictionaries, ed. H. Popowska-Taborska, Warsaw 2000.

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