# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerzy-kury-owicz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:24:38.633Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jerzy-kury-owicz"
name: "Jerzy Kuryłowicz"
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description: "Jerzy Kuryłowicz was a Polish linguist whose main area of interest was historical linguistics, specifically Indo-European studies. He is known for identifying consonantal reflexes in Hittite that were previously only hypothesized by Ferdinand de Saussure, thereby offering first direct evidence for the laryngeal theory."
tagline: "Polish linguist (1895–1978)"
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birthDate: "1895-08-26"
deathDate: "1978-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump