Listy Jana Otrębskiego do Jana Łosia z lat 1921–1928
Jan Otrębski’s Letters to Jan Łoś in the Years 1921–1928

Summary/Abstract: The article describes three letters and four postcards sent by Jan Otrębski to Jan Łoś in the years 1921–1928, stored in Special Collections Department of the Scientific Library of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow. Jan Otrębski, one of the most noted scholars of the Baltic and Slavic languages, began higher studies in 1909 at the University of Warsaw under Professor J.F. Karski. In 1913 he received the Candidate of Sciences degree in history-philosophy from the University of Warsaw, and at the same time earned a gold medal in a competition for a study of Belorussian dialects in the Vilnius Gubernia ({Očerk belorusskich govorov Vilenskoj gubernii}). Later on, he continued studies in Leipzig. J. Otrębski received a doctorate from the University of Cracow in 1920. In 1921, thanks to the help from Professor Jan Łoś, he was appointed to the post of deputy professor of Indo-European linguistic and the philology of Sanskrit at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. In 1930, he became professor at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius. In 1940, J. Otrębski was appointed head of the Department of Polish Philology and the Department of Classical Philology in Vilnius University. During World War II, he was a member of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language and took part in the publication of {Lietuvi? kalbos žodynas}(Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language). After the war, in 1945, Otrębski returned to Poland. After 1947, he became head of the Department of Baltic Languages at the University of Poznań. Although Otrębski’s studies concern various languages (Indo-European in general, Slavic languages in particular and even Latin languages) and various branches of linguistic (grammar, dialectology, etymology), his major works are devoted to the Lithuanian language.

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