Zoe Hauptová

Zoe Hauptová (9 February 1929 – 23 January 2012) was a Czech slavicist, palaeologist, editor, translator, lecturer and editor of the Old Church Slavonic Dictionary (from 1973, its chief editor).

Early life and education Hauptová was born in Brno and lived for a few years in Moravské Budějovice, before moving with her mother to Prague. She attended a French grammar school there, from which she graduated in 1948. She then began studying Czech and Polish at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, before expanding her studies to Slavic philology in general, and particularly Old Slavonic, under the influence of linguistics professors Bohuslav Havránek, Vladimír Skalička, Vladimír Šmilauer and others who taught in the faculty at that time.

Selected publications 1961 Hauptová, Zoe; Bechyňová, Věnceslava. Korespondence Pavla Josefa Šafaříka s Františkem Palackým. (Pavel Josef Safarik's correspondence with Frantisek Palacky.) Prague: Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. 1980 Hauptová, Zoe. Byzantské legendy – výběr textů ze 4.–12. století. (Byzantine Legends - selection of texts from the 4th to the 12th century.) Prague. 1982 Hauptová, Zoe; Bechyňová, Věnceslava. Zlatý věk bulharského písemnictví (výbor textů od 10. do počátku 15. století). (The Golden Age of Bulgarian Literature (an anthology of texts from the 10th to the beginning of the 15th century).) Praha: Vyšehrad. 1989 Hauptová, Zoe; Bláhová, Emilie; Konzal, Václav. Písemnictví ruského středověku – Od křtu Vladimíra Velikého po Dmitrije Donského (výbor textů 11.–14. století). (The Writing of the Russian Middle Ages - From the Baptism of Vladimir the Great to Dmitry Donski (Anthology of 11th-14th Century Texts).) Praha: Vyšehrad. 1997 Hauptová, Zoe; Večerka, Radoslav. Staroslověnská čítanka. (Reader in Old Church Slavonic.) Prague: Karolinum, Charles University.

Awards and recognition 1999 Paleoslovenica : in honorem Zoe Hauptová (Paleoslovenica: in honor of Zoe Hauptová), edited by Emilie Bláhová and Eva Šlaufová Josef Dobrovský Medal, awarded by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, for her contribution to the development of Slavic philology

Personal life Her partner was painter and graphic artist Petra Fisherová. Hauptová sometimes worked as a lay preacher in the Czech Brethren church in Nejdek near Karlovy Vary. She died in Prague.