Materiały do Słownika historyczno-geograficznego Tatr i Podtatrza Witolda Henryka Paryskiego

Abstract

MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE TATRA MOUNTAINS AND PODTATRZE REGION BY WITOLD HENRYK PARYSKI

The nomenclature of the Tatra and Podtatrze Mountains has for over a hundred years been of interest not only to linguists and historians but also to people working on this subject as a hobby. An example of such a person was Witold Henryk Paryski – the author of important studies mainly on Tatra subjects, who collected material for the Historic-Geographical Dictionary of the Tatra Mountains and the Podtatrze. However, the work was not completed and remained in the form of notes collected in a total of 150 binders and folders, which, after the deaths of Paryski and his wife, Zofia, together with other materials, were deposited in the Zofia Radwańska-Paryska and Witold Henryk Paryski Tatra Documentation Centre, a unit functioning within the structures of the Tatra National Park in Zakopane. The aim of this article is to provide a general characterization of this part of the collection, which was to become the basis for the publication of the aforementioned dictionary. The presentation of the archival material is the result of a search conducted by the author in 2022 in the ODT TPN in Zakopane and financed with funds from Program Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University.