Onufry Kopczynski
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Onufry Kopczynski (1736–1817) was an important educator and grammarian of the Polish language.
Born near Gniezno, Kopczynski became an educator with the Piarist order, teaching at the Konarski Konvikt in Warsaw. In 1775 he became a member of the commission for school books, and in 1809 Visitator of the Prussian-Polish schools.
Kopczynski is best known for his efforts to improve improve the status of the Polish language, which was at that time little regarded, by making it a main subject of study in schools. His major work is Grammar for the National Schools (1785), in which he laid out a formal grammar and method of study for the language.
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- (German) "Kopczynski". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (4th edition) 10. (1890). 59–60.