Department of the History of the 17th and 18th Century Polish

ul. Ratuszowa 11

03-450 Warszawa

e-mail: slownikxvii@ijp.pan.pl

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

• dr hab. Magdalena Majdak, prof. IJP PAN

TEAM

• dr Dorota Adamiec

• dr Renata Bronikowska

• dr Katarzyna Kryńska

• dr Ewa Rodek

• dr Aleksandra Wieczorek

• mgr Paweł Kupiszewski

The history of the Department

The Department of the History of the 17^th and 18^th Century Polish was established in December 1954 as a unit of the Department of Linguistics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, headed by Professor Witold Doroszewski. From the very beginning, its main task was to compile the Dictionary of the Polish Language of the 17^th and the 1^st half of the 18^th Centuries.

Professor Halina Koneczna became the head of the new historical-linguistic department. After her death in 1961, this position was taken over by Professor Stanisław Skorupka, co-editor of Witold Doroszewski’s Dictionary of the Polish Language, a well-known lexicographer and phraseologist. From the beginning of the Department’s existence, the deputy of both professors was Salomea Szlifersztejnowa, who organized the work of the team.

In 1969, Kazimierz Żelazko, PhD, became the head of the Department, who with great commitment led the project until 1991, when Krystyna Siekierska, PhD, a long-time employee of the editorial staff of the emerging Dictionary, took over the leadership (after: Krystyna Siekierska, Teresa Sokołowska, Dictionary History up to 1999, https://sxvii.pl/archiwalne).

In 2004, Professor Włodzimierz Gruszczyński became the head of the Department. Since then, the dictionary has acquired an electronic form and is the first Polish historical dictionary to be created only in this version.

On November 1, 2022, the position of the head of the Dapartment was taken over by Magdalena Majdak, DSc.

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

Multilateral research on the Polish language of the 17^th and 18^th centuries, including:

Electronic Dictionary of the 17^th– and 18^th-century Polish (https://sxvii.pl/)

Electronic Corpus of the 17^th – and 18^th-century Polish Texts (https://korba.edu.pl/)

Main research areas

Multi-aspected research on the Polish language of 17th and 18th century, including:

• Electronic Dictionary of the 17th- and 18th-century Polish (https://sxvii.pl/)
• Electronic Corpus of the 17th- and 18th-century Polish Texts (https://korba.edu.pl/)