Leszek Bednarczuk
Leszek Bednarczuk was a Polish linguist, Indo-Europeanist, professor of the Pedagogical University of Cracow from 1987 and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Bednarczuk authored a 2010 book Językowy obraz Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego. Bednarczuk was born in Vilnius on 30 May 1936, and died on 2 November 2025, at the age of 89.