born Aug. 26, 1895, Stanislav, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
died Jan. 28, 1978, Kraków, Pol.
Polish historical linguist.
His identification of the Hittite medial h in 1927 substantiated the existence of laryngeals, the Indo-European speech sounds postulated by phonology . His books include Apophony in Indo-European (1956) and The Inflectional Categories of Indo-European (1964).