Aleksander Br%C3%BCckner
Aleksander Brckner was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literatures , philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Slavicists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the first to prepare complete monographs on the history of Polish language and culture. He published more than 1,500 titles and discovered the Holy Cross Sermons.
Brckner was born in Brzeany in Galicia, Austrian Empire, to an AustroPolish family who had moved there from Stryj three generations earlier. He graduated at the German Gymnasium in Lemberg under Omelian Ohonovsky, in Vienna under Franc Mikloi, and in Berlin under Vatroslav Jagi. Brckner first taught at Lemberg . In 1876 he received a doctorate at the University of Vienna, and in 1878 his habilitation for a study on Slavic settlements around Magdeburg . In 1881 he received professorship at the Berlin Universary, where he long held the chair in Slavic Philology. He received funds for travel and studies from his University and he resided in Berlin continuously for 58 years until his death. He was a member of many learned societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning in Krakw, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lemberg, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, as well as academies in Prague and Belgrade.
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