About Petr Sgall
Lived 1926 – 2019 (aged 93). Petr Sgall was a Czech linguist, university teacher, writer and bohemicist.
Petr Sgall (27 May 1926 – 28 May 2019) was a Czech linguist. He specialized in dependency grammar, topic–focus articulation and Common Czech.
Biography Sgall was born on 27 May 1926 in České Budějovice. His father was an attorney and a translator from Litomyšl of Jewish descent. Sgall studied at Česká Třebová high school; however he was expelled in the 1942/43 academic year because of his Jewish father. Most of Sgall's closest relatives were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
He studied Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, general linguistics and Czech at Charles University in Prague.
His son is mathematician and computer scientist .
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Czech linguist and university educator (1926-2019)
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Petr Sgall was born on 27 May 1926 in České Budějovice.
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Petr Sgall died on 28 May 2019 in Prague.
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Petr Sgall was a linguist, university teacher, writer and bohemicist.
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Petr Sgall was Czech.
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