The achievements of Ewa Rzetelska-Feleszko (1932-2009) in the scope of world of Slavonic studies

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Ewa Rzetelska-Feleszko (1932-2009), Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She was born in 1932 in Warsaw. She is the author of approximately 340 publications, including several books of her own and several as co-author. She was also the author of the concept and scientific editor of two onomastic synthesis: Polish propernames. Encyclopedia (1998) and Slavonic onomastics. Encyclopedia, vol. 1 and 2 (2002, 2003), and editor of several books. In addition, she was a member of national and international scientific organizations, such as The International Committee of Onomastic Sciences - ICOS, the International Society for Dialectology and  Geo-linguistic. In certain Polish committees she acted as president or a member of the presidium. Ongoing scientific research: dialectology, onomastics and the history of the Polish language and western-Slavic languages, and in particular the tużyce, Kaszuby and Pomorze dialects; multi-directional onomastic research concerning multiple categories of naming and different issues: theoretical, structural, cultural; the issues of national and ethnic minorities; manuals of linguistic-polish and Slavonic philology. She was an expert and a reviewer in Committees (among others The Commission of Determining Local and Physio-graphic Names - KUNMiOF), reviewer, in doctoral, habilitations and Professor proceedings. She participated (with lectures) in about 30 congresses and international conferences, and in many national conferences.