PhDr, PhD, prof. ATH a bohemist of a linguist, He works at the Institute of Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Main interests: phraseology, linguistic picture of the world, national stereotypes (meta-; auto- and heretostereotypes), religious language, the situation of contemporary Czech and Polish. At present he conducts comparative-cognitive research devoted to the problems of translation, language interferences and lexical units of Czech and Polish language, as well as diversity of linguistic picture of the world taking into account semantic and conceptual attributes of native language. Recently published work: Birds in Czech and Polish phraseology. Conceptualisation – picture – reflection (2012); The world of avifauna in Polish and Czech translations of the Holy Bible – owls and swallows (2013); The world of avifauna II in Polish and Czech translations of scripture – pure and impure birds (2014); The world of bird life III in Polish and Czech translations of the Holy Bible – the corvidae family – jackdaws, crows, ravens, rooks, jays (2016); The world of bird life IV in Polish and Czech translations of the Holy Bible – stork, ibis, pelican (2018) and The world of bird life V in Polish and Czech translations of the Holy Bible – crane and ostrich (2020). The issues related to to the didactic and pansophic issues of John Amos Comenius are also important to him. [16.04.2024]