Šimon Ondruš
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Šimon Ondruš (* 27 October 1924,
Klčov Klčov (; hu, Kolcsó) is a village and municipality in Levoča District in the Prešov Region of central-eastern Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1258. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude o ...
– † 8 January 2011,
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) was a Slovak
linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
,
Slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Sla ...
and
indo-Europeanist Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...
, member of several international linguistic societies.


Life

He studied
Slovak language Slovak () , is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of the larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken by appro ...
and philosophy at the
Comenius University in Bratislava Comenius University in Bratislava ( sk, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave) is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is name ...
. He became a professor in 1967, then he worked in several positions at the university (Pro Dean,
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, the head of the Department of Slavic and Indo-European Studies). The head of the Slovak Committee of Slavists (1969–1970). He dealt with comparative Slavic and Indo-European linguistics, especially etymology, Old Slavonic, general linguistics and history of linguistics. He taught Slovak and
Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus' Places *Czech, ...
at the
University of Debrecen ThUniversity of Debrecen( hu, Debreceni Egyetem) is a university located in Debrecen, Hungary. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in Hungary ever since its ...
and Slovak and Czech studies at the
University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...
. He translated from Hungarian and German.


Selected works

* ''Úvod do slavistiky'' ntroduction to Slavic Studies(1955, 1956, 1959) * ''Szláv népek és nyelvek'' lavic Peoples and languages(1962, co-author) * ''Úvod do štúdia jazykov'' ntroduction to Linguistics(1981, 1984, 1987) * ''Život a dielo Metoda, prvoučiteľa národa slovienskeho'' ife and Work of Methodius, the First Teacher of Slovene nation(1985) * ''Odtajnené trezory'' eclassified Safes(2000) * ''Odtajnené trezory slov 2, 3'' eclassified Safes of Words(2002, 2004)


Awards

* 1975
Order of Cyril and Methodius The Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius is an award conferred by the Republic of Bulgaria. History It has had three incarnations : * first on 18 May 1909 by the Kingdom of Bulgaria, * second on 13 December 1950 by the People's Republic of Bulga ...
(
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) * 1980 Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (
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)


References

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