Professor Andrzej Bogusławski’s Jubilees

Abstract

The paper was written on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of Professor Andrzej Bogusławski’s birthday, the seventieth anniversary of his employment at the Warsaw University as well as the publication of his first papers. The author presents scholar’s Curriculum Vitae and his outstanding achievements in the theory and philosophy of language, the history and methodology of linguistics. Moreover, the author justifies the thesis that Andrzej Bogusławski is the founder of the Polish linguistic school in the field of semantics methodology.
Andrzej Bogusławski (born 1931, in Warsaw) studied Slavonic philology at the University of Warsaw and in 1953 obtained his M.A. Since 1951, he has been employed at the University of Warsaw, since 1972 at the Department of Formal Linguistics; as a student he worked as a deputy assistant. In 1960, he obtained his PhD degree and in 1966 he was awarded the title of habilitated doctor. In 1977, he became an associate professor and in 1989 a full professor. He had lectures as a visiting professor at the German universities in Regensburg, Tübingen and München. Professor Bogusławski is the author of nearly 500 publications which include more than 20 books. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg (1999) and the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (2012). Professor Bogusławski is a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts (2004), a full member of Warsaw Scientific Society (1983) and an honorary member of the Polish Linguistic Society.