Jan Miodek

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caption = Professor Jan Miodek
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birth_place = Tarnowskie Góry, Polska
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field = linguistics
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alma_mater = Wroclaw University
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Jan Miodek (born 1946 in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland), Professor of Wroclaw University, is a linguist in the normative tradition.

With numerous television appearances ("Ojczyzna polszczyzna") and newspaper articles, he is a popular media figure. Many laypeople consider him to be "the authority on the Polish language". His many columns, essentially dealing with minor problems, were published and republished in many books.

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