Linguist Jaŭchim Karski (Яўхім Фёдаравіч Карскі) (Foremost Belarusian linguist) (January 1, 1861 - April 29, 1931) Photo Credit: Belaruskaya Mova: Entziklapediya, (pub. 1994, page 225).

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"(Also "Yefimi" Karski)   Foremost philologist of Belarus, author of the monumental Biełarusy (The Belarusans), a detailed documentation and description of Belarusan language and literature in three volumes (seven parts) published in 1903-1922."

"A graduate of Nezhin Historical and Philological Institute (1885), Karski authored more than 700 works in Slavic studies (including Russian and Ukrainian), primarily on the history of Belarusan language and literature. Some of his studies were in ethnography, paleography, and folklore."

"After obtaining a professorship, he taught at the University of Warsaw, of which he was president in 1905-1910."

"In 1917, he taught at Petrograd University."

"He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1916), the Institute of Belarusan Culture (1922), and the Czech Academy of Sciences (1929)."

The preceding text is from the following source:
From his entry in the Historical Dictionary of Belarus (Zaprudnik, 1998; p. 131). (Text in bold in the preceding refers to other entries in the Historical Dictionary of Belarus. The Historical Dictionary of Belarus is a very important summary of the history of Belarus.)