Jiří Polívka
Illustration — Polívka in 1918 Jiří Polívka (6 March 1858 in Enns – 21 March 1933 in Prague) was a Czech linguist, slavist, literary historian and folklorist. He was a disciple of Jan Gebauer. In 1895, he was appointed professor at Charles University in Prague.
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Jiří Polívka
Sborník prací věnovaných prof. Dr. J. Polívkovi k šedesátým narozeninám Společností Národopisného musea českoslovanského v Praze. · Public domain
- Born
- 1858. · Enns.
- Died
- 1933. · Prague.
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary.
- Occupation
- pedagogue, writer, ethnographer, literary historian, slavist, teacher and folklorist.
- Fields
- Slavic studies.
- Education
- Charles University and University of Vienna.
- Languages
- Czech.
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Illustration — Polívka in 1918 Jiří Polívka (6 March 1858 in Enns – 21 March 1933 in Prague) was a Czech linguist, slavist, literary historian and folklorist. He was a disciple of Jan Gebauer. In 1895, he was appointed professor at Charles University in Prague.
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He became a corresponding member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1901). He was a supporter of Theodor Benfey’s migration theory. His major work was the collection of Slavic Tales (1932) and studies about Slavic dialectology. Polívka is interred at the Vinohrady Cemetery in Prague.
• HLÔŠKOVÁ, Hana – ZELENKOVÁ, Anna (Eds.): Slavista Jiří Polívka v kontexte literatúry a folklóru I.–II. Bratislava: Katedra etnológie a kultúrnej antropológie FF UK, Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava SAV, Ústav etnológie SAV; Brno: Česká asociace slavistů, Slavistická společnost Franka Wollmana v Brne, 2008. 248 p..
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