Prof. dr hab. Stanisław Stachowski was a distinguished scholar, linguist, lexicographer, Turkologist and Slavicist. He was associated with the Jagiellonian University – the institution in which he proceeded to develop his scholarly career, holding various administrative functions and educating successive generations of Slavicists and Turkologists.
He was the author of a few dozen of scholarly monographs, including, inter alia, works devoted to the Serbian-Croatian language, the Upper Sorbian language and as well as works associated with Turkic and Balkan studies.
He received many accolades for his scholarly contributions, including an award presented by the Minister of Education, the Gold Cross of Merit in 1976 and the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1986, and a medal from the Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of Turkey for his distinguished contributions in 2018. He was a member of a number of scholarly committees of the PAN, and, since 1990, also of the prestigious Societas Uralo-Altaica. He held the position of the editor-in-chief of the scholarly periodicals, Folia Orientalia as well as Prace Językoznawcze. Zeszyty Naukowe UJ.