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Jan Braun
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'''Jan Braun''' (*[[1926]]<ref>[http://alpha.bn.org.pl/search~S5*pol?/aBraun%2C+jan/abraun+jan/1%2C3%2C17%2CB/exact&FF=abraun+jan+1926&1%2C15%2C/indexsort=- National Library Of Poland /Cała Baza<!-- Tytuł wygenerowany przez bota -->]</ref>-29 June 2015) was a Polish [[linguist]]-comparativist, Orientalist, Caucasian studies specialist and a specialist of [[Sumer]]. He worked for many years at the department of Ancient Orient of the [[University of Warsaw|Oriental Faculty of the University of Warsaw]]. He was awarded a Doctor's degree in [[1991]] and in 1995 he became a professor.<ref>Ryszard Kulesza, Marek Stępień (red.), ''Historia…'', s. 533.</ref> Jan Braun thereafter served as professor emeritus.<ref>[http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/zaklad_wschodu_starozytnego/pl/pracownicy.htm strona Zakładu Wschodu Starożytnego Wydziału Orientalistycznego UW]</ref>

He published works on the suggested links on Basque and the Caucasian languages as well as his proposed [[Genetic relationship (linguistics)|genetic relationship]] of the [[Sumerian language]] with the [[Sino-Tibetan languages]].

== Bibliography ==

*Jan Braun "Euscaro-Caucasica: historical and comparative studies on Kartvelian and Basque" Volume 4 of Philologia orientalis. Wydawn. Akademickie DIALOG, 1998, 146 pages.

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