Kazimierz Feleszko

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Kazimierz Feleszko (born September 18, 1939 in Chernivtsi , † July 3, 2001 in Warsaw ) was a Polish Slavist, Balkan scholar, linguist and translator. He has taught at the University of Warsaw , the University of Opole and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Feleszko was born in Bukovina and spent his formative early years in this multilingual and multiethnic environment. He was linguistically gifted and polyglot, grew up in an environment in which, depending on the situation and the person opposite, German, Romanian and Ukrainian were spoken in addition to Polish. After the Second World War , he found himself with his family and other Poles who had emigrated from Bukovina in Prudnik in Upper Silesia, also a region where cultures and peoples mixed; this time dialectal Polish , German and Czech were spoken. In Prudnik Feleszko attended school and graduated from high school. He then started studying Serbo-Croatian at the Philological Faculty of the University of Warsaw , got to know and love a new multi-ethnic language area and expanded his language skills to include Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian , which was then called . Feleszko spent most of his life in Warsaw, lived in Germany for a few years and also traveled a lot, especially to the Balkans and Bukovina.

Feleszko was the Slawistin and name Kund activist Ewa Rzetelska-Feleszko married. His bones rest in the family grave in Grabowo in the municipality of Mrągowo (Warmia i Mazury Voivodeship).

research

Feleszko worked at the Slavic Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1962 , where he wrote a linguistic master’s thesis under Zdzisław Stieber in 1963 and - supervised by Zuzanna Tolpolińska and later Zdizław Stieber - obtained a thesis on the syntax of the genitive and prepositional expressions in Serbo-Croatian ( Polish Składnia genetiwu i wyrażeń przyimkowych w języku serbsko-chorwackim ) the doctorate . The dissertation was published in 1970 by Ossolineum Verlag in Polish and again in Belgrade in 1995 in Serbian. In 1980 , Feleszko completed his habilitation with an investigation into the functions of the forms of the number category in the Polish nominal group (Polish Funkcje form kategorii liczby w polskiej grupie imiennej ). In 1979 he moved from the Academy of Sciences to the Institute of Slavic Philology at the University of Warsaw. From 1979 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2001 he worked there as a scientist and lecturer and at times as institute director. From 1992 to 1997 Feleszko taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In the 1998/1999 academic year he was a professor at the University of Opole. In 2001 Feleszko was posthumously appointed professor (Polish profesor tytularny ) by the President of the Republic of Poland .

Feleszko's academic interest focused on the grammatical structure of the Slavic languages, especially in the context of the number and with reference to Polish and the South Slavic languages. He also dealt with contrastive linguistics and multilingualism in Bukovina. His scientific legacy includes well over 100 positions. For a time he was co-editor of the magazine Die Welt der Slaven . From Serbo-Croatian he translated the standard work Paths of Linguistics (Polish Kierunki w lingwistyce ) by Milka Ivić into Polish.

Feleszko founded the International Scientific Conference "Bukowinian Meetings" (Polish : Bukowińskie Spotkania ), which is accompanied by an international folklore festival.

Works (selection)

  • 1970: Składnia genetiwu i wyrażeń przyimkowych z genetiwem w języku serbsko-chorwackim. (Dissertation) ( Значења и синтакса српскохрватског генитива. Beograd 1995)
  • 1978: Characterystyka ilościowa grupy imiennej w języku polskim. I. Policzalność - niepoliczalność przedmiotów; funkcje składniowe form liczbowych. Studia Gramatyczne , II, pp. 5-16.
  • 1980: Characterystyka ilościowa grupy imiennej w języku polskim. II. Liczba gramatyczna a liczba arytmetyczna; nazwy zbiorowe. Studia Gramatyczne , III, pp. 5-17.
  • 1980: Funkcje form kategorii liczby w polskiej grupie imiennej. Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa. (Habilitation thesis)
  • 1981: Characterystyka ilościowa grupy imiennej w języku polskim. III. Klasy rzeczowników a formy liczbowe wyrazów zależnych. Studia Gramatyczne , IV, pp. 191-208.
  • 2000: The Poles in Chernivtsi. In: Harald Heppner (Ed.): Czernowitz. The story of an unusual city. Cologne, pp. 129-144.
  • 2002: Bukowina moja miłość. Język polski na Bukowinie karpackiej do 1945 roku. Edited by Andrzej Żor in collaboration with Helena Krasowska, vol. 1. Warszawa: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
  • 2003: Bukowina moja miłość. Język polski na Bukowinie karpackiej do 1945 roku. Słownik (dictionary). Edited by Ewa Rzetelska-Feleszko in collaboration with Helena Krasowska, vol. 2. Warszawa: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk.

literature

  • Jerzy Molas: Kazimierz Feleszko - od dopełniacza i liczby po (nie) spełnienie. In: My z Nich. Spuścizna językoznawców Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Ed .: Z. Zaron, Z. Greń. Warszawa 2017, ISBN 978-83-7798-251-8 , pp. 73-83.
  • Bibliografia prac Kazimierza Feleszki za lata 1965–2002. Modifications made by Helena Krasowska. In: Kazimierz Feleszko: Bukowina: moja miłość. Język polski na Bukowinie Karpackiej do 1945 roku. T. 1. Warszawa 2002 , pp. 191-200. (Bibliography)
  • Krzysztof Wrocławski: Professor Kazimierz Feleszko (18 IX 1939–3 VII 2001). In: Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej 37 (2001) , pp. 21-24. (Obituary in Polish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Krzysztof Wrocławski: Kazimierz Feleszko (1939-2001). In: Rocznik Towarzystwa Naukowego Warszawskiego 64 (2009), pp. 54-56. Muzeum Historii Polski, accessed March 31, 2020 (Polish).
  2. ^ A b "Super User": Kazimierz Feleszko - Bukowińczyk, slawista. In: bukpolonia. Чернівецьке обласне товариство польської культури імені А.Міцкевича , August 14, 2019, accessed March 31, 2020 (Polish).
  3. ↑ Jerzy Duma: Ewa Rzetelska-Feleszko (1932-2009). In: Prace Językoznawcze XI. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie, 2009, accessed March 31, 2009 (Polish).
  4. ↑ MP 2001.22.362 Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiejej z dnia 18 czerwca 2001 g. o nadaniu tytułu naukowego profesora nr 115-10-01 . In: Akty prawne. prawo.pl, accessed on March 31, 2020 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Feleszko, Kazimierz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Slavist, Balkanist, linguist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 2001
Place of death Warsaw