Jiří Polívka
Czech ethnographer, linguist, literature historian, literary theorist, professor, publicist, university educator and science writer
About Jiří Polívka
Lived 1858 – 1933 (aged 75). Jiří Polívka was an Austrian pedagogue, writer, university teacher, ethnographer, literary historian and slavist.
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. He became a corresponding member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. 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.
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Czech ethnographer, linguist, literature historian, literary theorist, professor, publicist, university educator and science writer (1858–1933)
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Jiří Polívka was born on 6 March 1858 in Enns.
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Jiří Polívka died on 21 March 1933 in Prague, Libeň.
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Jiří Polívka was a pedagogue, writer, university teacher, ethnographer, literary historian and slavist.
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Jiří Polívka was Austrian.
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