Andrzej Gawroński

Andrzej Gawroński (20 June 1885 in Geneva – 11 January 1927 in Józefów, in the vicinity of Warsaw) was a Polish Indologist, linguist and polyglot. Professor of Jagiellonian University and Lviv University, (starting in 1916), the author of the first Polish handbook of Sanskrit (Podręcznik sanskrytu, 1932), founder of Polish Oriental Society (1922).

Son of Franciszek Rawita-Gawroński (a historian, writer and a columnist of the nationalistic press) and Antonina Miłkowska (a teacher and a translator), grandson of Teodor Tomasz Jeż. Attended elementary school in Lviv and secondary schools in Przemyśl and Lviv. He graduated in Linguistics from the University of Lviv and University of Leipzig (1902–1906). Suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis, which was the cause of his death at the age of 42.

In 1906, Gawroński defended his doctoral thesis, Sprachliche Untersuchungen über das Mr. cchakat.ika und das Daśakumāracarita, at the University of Leipzig and became assistant professor in the Department of Indo-European Linguistics at the Jagiellonian University. In 1912 he completed his Habilitationschrift Am Rande des Mr.cchakat.ika and was promoted to the rank of associate professor. In the years 1916-1917 he took the chair in the Department of Sanskrit Philology at the Jagiellonian University. From 1917 full professor and Head of the Department of Contrastive Linguistics at the University of Lviv. He gave lectures on the history and language of Sanskrit drama, contrastive grammar of Indo-European languages and Old-Indian philology.

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