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Kazimierz Rymut
Kazimierz Rymut
Born	December 18, 1935; Chechły
Died	November 14, 2006 (aged 70); Kraków
Nationality	Polish
Occupation(s)	linguist, onomastician

Kazimierz Rymut (18 December 1935 in Chechły near Ropczyce - 14 November 2006, Kraków) was a Polish linguist, onomastician. His area of expertise was the etymology of towns and geographical features in Poland.

Biography

He studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University; He got his doctorate in 1968, habilitated in 1972. From 1979, he worked as an associate professor. He was long-standing director the Polish Onomastics Department at the Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, the editor-in-chief of the "Onomastica" magazine, chairman of the Slavonic Onomastic Commission in the International Committee of Slavs, and in the years 1986–2004 the chairman of the Commission for Determining the Names of Places and Physiographic Objects at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration. He was buried at the cemetery in Brzezie on November 17, 2006.

Works

Popular works by Kazimierz Rymut include:

Nazwy miejscowe północnej części dawnego woj. krakowskiego, 1967
Patronimiczne nazwy miejscowe w Małopolsce,1971
Słowotwórstwo polskich patronimicznych nazw miejscowych z przyrostkiem (ov)itjo- na tle zachodniosłowiańskim, 1973
Hydronimia dorzecza Orawy (together with M. Majtán), 1985
Nazwy miejscowe Polski – słownik nazw miejscowych Polski,
Nazwy miast Polski – słownik nazw miast Polski, 1987
Nazwiska Polaków, 1991