On 19 June 1909, Maria Przepiurska-Ovcharenko, a Ukrainian linguist, researcher of dialects and language history, was born. Biography Maria Przepiurska-Ovcharenko was born in the village of Tarnavka (now part of Poland). She graduated from the Jagiellonian and Charles University. She taught in Lviv, Czechoslovakia, and after emigrating in 1949, she also worked at universities in the United States. In particular, ...

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