Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Branislaw Tarashkyevich

Belarusian public figure, politician, and linguist

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1892

Place of Birth: Mačiuliškės, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 29-Nov-1938

Profession: writer, politician, translator, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Branislaw Adamavich Tarashkyevich (Belarusian: ????????´? ???´????? ???????´???, Lacinka: Branislau Taraškievic, Russian: ????????´? ???´????? ???????´???, Lithuanian: Bronislavas Taraškevicius, Polish: Bronislaw Adamowicz Taraszkiewicz; January 20, 1892 – November 29, 1938) was a Belarusian public figure, politician, and linguist. He was the creator of the first standardization of the modern Belarusian language in the early 20th century.
The standard was later Russified by the Soviet authorities.
However, the pre-Russified (classical) version of the standard was and still is actively used by intellectuals and the Belarusian diaspora and is informally referred to as Taraškievica, named after Branislaw Tarashkyevich. Tarashkyevich was a member of the underground Communist Party of West Belarus (KPZB) in Poland and was imprisoned for two years (1928–1930).
Also, as a member of the Belarusian Deputy Club (????????? ????????? ????, Byelaruski pasol’ski klub), he was a deputy to the Polish Parliament (Sejm) in 1922–1927.
Among others, he translated Pan Tadeusz into Belarusian, and in 1969 a Belarusian-language high school in Bielsk Podlaski was named after him. In 1933 he was set free due to a Polish–Soviet prisoner release in exchange for Frantsishak Alyakhnovich, a Belarusian journalist and playwright imprisoned in a GULAG, and lived in Soviet exile since then. He fell victim to the Great Purges and was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.