Stanisław Urbańczyk

{{Short description|Polish linguist (1909–2001)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|7|27}}

| birth_place = Kwaczała

| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|10|23|1909|7|27}}

| death_place = Kraków

| alma_mater = Jagiellonian University

| workplaces = Jagiellonian University
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Stanisław Urbańczyk (27 July 1909 – 23 October 2001) was a Polish linguist and academic, a professor at the universities of Toruń, Poznań and Kraków. He was the head of the Institute of the Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1973–79.{{cite web | url=https://www.ijp-pan.krakow.pl/en/historia-instytutu | title=Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN – Strona Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN }}

Born to a peasant family in Kwaczała, he completed 4-class elementary school in Kwaczała and started learning in St. Anne's Secondary School (today I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Bartłomieja Nowodworskiego w Krakowie). In the years 1929–1934 he studied Polish and Slavic philology[http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/16235,,,,urbanczyk_stanislaw,haslo.html Urbańczyk Stanisław] at the Jagiellonian University. In 1937 he became an academic teacher. Among his students was young Karol Wojtyła, later the pope John Paul II. In 1939 he was arrested by the Nazis during Sonderaktion Krakau and imprisoned in concentration camps in Sachsenhausen and Dachau.[http://rep.up.krakow.pl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11716/1208/profesor_stanislaw_urbanczyk_i_t_zarebina_maria_000191.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Maria Zarębina, Profesor Stanisław Urbańczyk i tajne nauczanie w Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim (in Polish)]

He was the author of many books, articles and reviews. Among his scholarly interests were synchronical and diachronical Polish grammar, dialectology, history of language, Slavic native religion and mythology, biblical translation and influence of Czech onto Polish in Middle Ages.