Jerzy Kuryłowicz

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Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895-1978) was a Polish linguist who studied Indo-European languages. He was the brother of Włodzimierz Kuryłowicz.

In 1929, he became a professor at the University of Lwów. In 1946, he moved to the University of Wrocław, and in 1948 to the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning and the Polish Academy of Sciences.

His identification of the Hittite medial h in 1927 substantiated the existence of the laryngeals, Indo-European speech sounds postulated by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure in 1879.

Two of his most important works are L'Apophonie en indo-européen (1956; "Apophony in Indo-European") and The Inflectional Categories of Indo-European (1964).

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