Hanna Popowska-Taborska

Hanna Popowska-Taborska (March 22, 1930 – December 6, 2022)^[1] was a Polish linguist and researcher of Kashubians.

Born as daughter of pediatrics professors.^[2] In 1952 she graduated in linguistics from the University of Lodz.^[3] She received her doctorate (1959) and habilitation (1966) from the University of Warsaw. In 1972 she received the title of associate professor, and seven years later a full professor.^[4] In the 1950s she does field research among the Kashubian and Slovinian population.^[3]

Author and co-author of many works devoted to Kashubian language,^[4] including the multi-volume Kashubian Language Atlas and Kashubian Etymological Dictionary. In her opinion, Słowiński Oaths from Wierzchocina: "...we owe a significant number of lexical Kashubisms...". In 1979, she was awarded the Medal for her scientific work.^[5]

On August 23, 1980, she joined the appeal 64 of scholars, writers, and publicists to the communist authorities to start a dialogue with striking workers.^[6]

In 1997, she received the Bernard Chrzanowski Medal "Moved the Wind from the Sea".^[3]

In 1999 she was honored with the title of doctor honoris causa University of Gdańsk.^[7][2]

In 2002 she received the Officer's Cross Order of Polonia Restituta.^[8]

• The central issue of Kashubian vocalism (Kashubian change ę > i and ĭ, y, ŭ > ë), Ossoliński National Institute, Wrocław 1961.
• Language atlas of Kashubia and neighboring dialects, prepared by the Team of the Department of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, vol. I-VI under the direction of Z. Stieber; vol. VII-XV under H. Popowska-Taborska, Wrocław 1964–1978.
• Bartłomiej z Bydgoszczy. Polish Lexicographer of the First Half of the 16th Century, Ossolineum, Wrocław 1977 (co-author: Irena Kwilecka)
• Kashubian Region: Outline of History, PWN, Warsaw 1980.
• From the Old Divisions of Slavdom: Slavic Alternation (j)e-: o-, Wrocław 1984.
• Sketches from Kashubia: History, Monuments, Vocabulary, Gdańsk 1986.
• Early History of the Slavs in the Light of Their Language, Wrocław 1991.
• Kashubian Lexicon in the Slavic Background, Warsaw 1996 (together with W. Boryś).
• Etymological Dictionary of Kashubia, vol. I-V, Warsaw 1994-2006 (with W. Boryś).
• Slavic Dialectal Dictionaries, ed. H. Popowska-Taborska, Warsaw 2000.