Kazimierz Rymut (18 December 1935 in Chechà Ây near Ropczyce - 14 November 2006, Kraków) was a Polish linguist, onomastician. His area of expertise was the etymology of towns and geographical features in Poland.
He studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University; He got his doctorate in 1968, habilitated in 1972. From 1979, he worked as an associate professor. He was long-standing director the Polish Onomastics Department at the Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, the editor-in-chief of the "Onomastica" magazine, chairman of the Slavonic Onomastic Commission in the International Committee of Slavs, and in the years 1986âÂÂ2004 the chairman of the Commission for Determining the Names of Places and Physiographic Objects at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration. He was buried at the cemetery in Brzezie on November 17, 2006.
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