Zygmunt Gloger as a Linguist

Abstract

The paper present the achievements of Zygmunt Gloger in the area of linguistics. It follows from numerous works of this Podlesie inhabitant from Jeżew that language was for him an important part of culture, a safeguard of national identity. This relationship to the Polish language made Gloger devote many studies and much effort to linguistic research. Zygmunt Gloger – an ethnographer, archaeologist, historian – fully deserved to be called a linguist: dialectologist, language historian, and onomast.