Václav Machek (linguist)

Václav Machek (8 November 1894, Úhlejov - 26 May 1965, Brno) was a Czech linguist.[1]

Life

In years 1914-1921 (studies were interrupted by World War I) Machek studied Czech and Latin language at Charles University in Prague (his main interest during studies were Baltic languages and etymology). In years 1921-1924 he studied linguistics in Paris. Several years he taught at high schools in Czechoslovakia. From 1936 he was a professor of Slavic studies and comparative linguistics at then Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (now Masaryk University).[1]

Work

His scientific work is dedicated to etymology, especially in Czech and Slovak language; his etymological studies are always joined with studies of cultural background. His most important work is still reprinted Etymological Dictionary of Czech and Slovak language (Etymologický slovník jazyka českého a slovenského, 1957, 1968, in later edition, articles about Slovak words were omitted), Czech and Slovak names of plants (Česká a slovenská jména rostlin, 1954), he also collaborated on a project of unfinished Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages (Etymologický slovník slovanských jazyků, 1973-1980).[1]

Machek's non-monographic works were collected in Sebrané spisy Václava Machka (Prague, 2011). Some of his minor works were written in French.

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gollark: The error silencing operator makes it so that if an error (not exception) occurs in a given scope it will be ignored and execution will continue after it.
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gollark: Which can be compile time compile errors or compile time runtime errors.
gollark: As opposed to compile exceptions or compile time errors.

References
  1. Biography in Akademický bulletin of AVČR
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