Wenzel Vondrák (Czech: ''Václav Vondrák''; September 22, 1859 in
Dub – 1925) was a
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Slavist and professor at the universities of
Vienna
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Brno
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Life
From 1872 to 1880, Vondrák attended
gymnasium in
Prachatice
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České Budějovice
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. He moved to Vienna, starting to study
Roman philology, but soon switching to Slavic philology under
Franz Miklosich
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Early life
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. He obtained a doctoral degree in 1884. From 1881 to 1891, Vondrák worked as a
private teacher for various aristocratic families. In 1893, he attained
habilitation
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in Slavic languages and literature in Vienna. In 1903, he was appointed to professor extraordinarius at the Vienna University. In 1919, he was appointed to professor at the Brno University.
Vondráks research contributions lie in the fields of
Old Church Slavonic
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and comparative Slavistics, particularly grammar.
Selected works
A full bibliography is available in ''
Časopis pro moderní filologii'' 12(1) and ''Slavia'' 4(3).
* ''Zur Kritik der altslovenischen Denkmale'', Sitzungsberichte d. phil.-hist. Classe d. kaiserl. Akad. d. Wissenschaften, Vienna 1886. Separatabdruck, Vienna 1889
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* ''Altslovenische Studien'', Vienna 1890
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* ''Ueber einige orthographische und lexikalische Eigentümlichkeiten des Codex Suprasliensis'', Vienna 1891.
* ''Zur Würdigung der altslovenischen Wenzelslegende und der Legende vom heil. Prokop'', ''XIII. Abhandlung'' in: ''Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Hundertsiebenundzwanzigster Band'', Vienna 1892
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* ''Die Spuren der altkirchenslavischen Evangelienübersetzung in der altböhmischen Literatur'', Vienna 1893
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* ''Glagolita Clozův'', Otto, Prague 1893.
* ''Studie z oboru církevněslovanského písemnictví'' (Studies Old Church Slavonic Literature), Rozpravy české akademie, Prague 1903.
* ''O mluvě Jana exarcha bulharského'' (The Language of Jan the Bulgarian Exarch), Prague 1896.
* ''Altkirchenslavische Grammatik'', Berlin 1900, 1912
2.
* ''O původu kijevských listů a pražských zlomků a o bohemismech v starších církevněslovanských památkách vůbec'' (The Origin of the Kiev Folia and Prague Fragments), Prague 1904.
* ''Novější práce o činnosti slovanských apoštolů svatých Cyrilla a Methodia'' (New Works on the Activities of the Holy Slavic Apostles Cyril and Methodius), "ČČM" 1897.
* ''Zur Frage nach der Herkunft des glagolitischen Alphabets'', Archiv für slavische Philologie 18, 19.
* ''Vergleichende Slavische Grammatik'', Göttingen, I, 1906, II, 1908; I, 1924
2.
* ''Zu den Nasalen im Slavischen''. Bezzenbergers Beiträge 29.
* ''Slavische Akzent- und Quantitätsstudien''. Bezzenbergers Beiträge 30.
* ''Zur Liquidametathese im Slavischen''. Archiv f. slav. Philol. 25.
* ''O genitivech na ''u'' ve staré češtině'' (Genitives Ending with -''u'' in Old Czech), Listy filologické a paedagogické 12, 1885
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* ''O koncovkách praes. sg. 1. -ím a -ám v češtině'' (The First-Person Present Singular Endings -''ím'' and -''ám'' in Czech), Listy filol. 13.
* ''Kremsmünsterská legenda o 10.000 rytířích'' (The Kremsmünster Legend of 10,000 Knights), Listy filol. 16.
* ''Ueber die Lokalendungen -ě und -u der ъ- und о-Stämme im Altböhmischen'', Archiv f. slav. Philol. 1886.
* ''Ueber die persönlichen Schimpfwörter im Böhmischen'', Archiv f. slav. Philol. 1890.
* ''Frisinské památky, jich vznik a význam v slovanském písemnictví'' (The Freising Manuscripts, Their Origin and Significance in Slavic Literature), Prague 1896.
* ''Vokabulář klasické staroslověnštiny'' (Dictionary of Classic Old Slavonic, with Bartoň, Josef), KLP, Praha 2003.
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Linguists from the Czech Republic
1859 births
1925 deaths
Academic staff of Masaryk University