Jan Miodek Professor of Wroclaw University

Wroclaw University

The University of Wrocław is one of nine universities in Wrocław, Poland. Former, German university was founded in 1702 as Leopoldina, and re-founded in 1811 as Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau...

, is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 linguist

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 in the normative tradition.

With numerous television appearances (Ojczyzna polszczyzna) and newspaper articles, he is a popular media figure. Many laypeople consider him to be "the authority on the Polish language

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

". His many columns, essentially dealing with minor problems, were published and republished in many books.

He is one of the members of the Polish Language Council

Polish Language Council

The Polish Language Council is the official language regulating organ of the Polish language. It was formed on September 9, 1996 as a Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences on the power of the law enacted by the Polish parliament .The council is composed of 36 members,...

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