Abstract
The article presents a general characteristic of Stanisław Rospond’s academic and organizational activity in Silesia in the first years after World War II. This Polish and Slavic linguist, born near Cracow, a graduate of the Jagiellonian University, fascinated by the history of Silesia, moved to Wrocław in 1945. In that city, together with a group of professors from Lviv (Polish: Lwów), he set about rebuilding Polish academic research, organizing Polish linguistics with a focus on Silesian studies.
Keywords:
Silesia, biographical studies, onomastics, Polish linguistics