Aleksander Brückner
| Aleksander Brückner | |
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| Born |
29 January 1856 Brzeżany, Galicia, Austrian Empire (now Berezhany, Ukraine) |
| Died | 24 May 1939 (aged 83) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Occupation | Scholar of Slavic languages and literatures (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature |
Aleksander Brückner (Polish pronunciation: [alɛkˈsandɛr ˈbryknɛr]; 29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literatures (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the first to prepare complete monographs on the history of Polish language and culture. He published more than 1,500 titles and discovered the Holy Cross Sermons.
Brückner was born in Brzeżany (Berezhany) in Galicia, Austrian Empire, to an Austro-Polish family who had moved there from Stryj three generations earlier. He graduated at the German Gymnasium in Lemberg (Lwów) under Omelian Ohonovsky, in Vienna under Franc Miklošič, and in Berlin under Vatroslav Jagić. Brückner first taught at Lemberg (Lwów University). In 1876 he received a doctorate at the University of Vienna, and in 1878 his habilitation for a study on Slavic settlements around Magdeburg (Die slawischen Aussiedlungen in der Altmark und im Magdeburgischen). In 1881 he received professorship at the Berlin Universary, where he long held (1881–1924) the chair in Slavic Philology. He received funds for travel and studies from his University and he resided in Berlin continuously for 58 years until his death. He was a member of many learned societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning in Kraków, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lemberg, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well as academies in Prague and Belgrade.
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