[1] In 1930 he graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki State Secondary School in Tarnopol.

He studied Polish philology at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, from which he graduated in 1935.

At the University of Łódź, he was, inter alia, the position of vice-rector (1956–1959), deputy director of the Institute of Polish Philology (1970–1979), in 1988 he was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa.

In the years 1985–1989 he was the deputy chairman of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

He was a laureate of departmental awards, the City of Łódź Award (1982),[3] and the scientific award of the Łódź Scientific Society (1985); he was also awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Medal of the National Education Commission and the honorary title of Merit Teacher of the Polish People's Republic.