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Zbigniew Gołąb (born 16 March, 1923, Nowy Targ - March 24, 1994, Chicago) was a Polish American linguist and Slavist. He was described as "one of the world's greatest experts on the Macedonian language and the leading expert on Macedonian-Arumanian contact"[1]
He was active during the World War II Resistance Movement, after which he joined the guerrilla war against the Germans in 1944. He was imprisoned that same year, but has managed to escape just when Red Army was about to liberate Kraków. In the period 1948-49 he was imprisoned for one year by the Communists, but was eventually released.[2]
He received his M.A. at the University of Wrocław in 1947, and Ph.D. at the Jagiellonian University in 1958. He served as a professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in the period 1952-1961[2], and also at the Slavic Institute of the Polish Academy of Learning (1955-1961). Afterward he emigrated to the United States where he taught Slavic languages at the University of Chicago from 1962 until the retirement in 1993 as Professor Emeritus.
He was elected as a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1972.
His research includes a study of the Macedonian dialects of Suho and Visoka (published in Makedonski jazik), his habilitation on Balkan conditionals (Cracow, 1964), a monograph on the Arumanian dialect of Krushevo (MANU, 1984), and his last book: The Origins of the Slavs: A Linguist's View (Columbus, 1992). He also co-edited a dictionary of linguistic terminology (Warsaw, 1968) and was the author of more than 70 articles and reviews.
Notes
- ^ Victor Friedman in The University of Chicago Chronicle 13 (16)
- ^ a b Browne 1994
References
- Browne, Wayles (25 Mar 1994), "In memoriam Zbigniew Golab", LINGUIST List
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - "Zbigniew Golab, Slavic Languages & Literatures", The University of Chicago Chronicle, 13 (16), April 14, 1994
- 1923 births
- 1994 deaths
- People from Nowy Targ
- American linguists
- Polish linguists
- Polish emigrants to the United States
- Polish people of World War II
- American people of Polish descent
- University of Wrocław alumni
- Alumni of Jagiellonian University
- John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin faculty
- University of Chicago faculty