Jerzy Bańczerowski
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Jerzy Bańczerowski[1] (born on October 28, 1938, in Ożarów ) is a Polish professor of Philology.
Bańczerowski is a member of the Committee on Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and has served as director of the Institute of Linguistics (1977-1991, 1994–2008), and head of the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University (1969-).
The main subjects of Bańczerowski's research are general and comparative linguistics, set theoretic axiomatization of linguistic theory, Finno-Ugric linguistics, and Asian languages. On his initiative, new specialties (in the field of philology) of studies were established at the Adam Mickiewicz University, including Finnish philology and ethnolinguistics.[2]
