Career
Born near Gniezno, Kopczyński became an educator with the Piarist order, teaching at Stanisław Konarski"s Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw. Kopczyński is best known for his efforts to improve the status of the Polish language by making it a principal subject of study in schools. He in fact created Polish grammar terminology.
His major work was Gramatyka dla szkół narodowych (A Grammar for the National Schools, 1785), in which he laid out a formal grammar and method of study for the Latin and Polish languages.
The part of the book relating to the Polish language would be reprinted many times in the first half of the 19th century.