Šimon Ondruš (* 27 October 1924, Klčov – † 8 January 2011,

Bratislava Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. ...

) was a Slovak

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

Slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was ...

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 p ...

, member of several international linguistic societies.

Life

He studied

Slovak language Slovak ( ; endonym: or ), is a West Slavic language of the Czech-Slovak languages, Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script and formerly in Cyrillic script. It is part of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, and is ...

and philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava. He became a professor in 1967, then he worked in several positions at the university (Pro Dean, Dean, 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 *Czech (surnam ...

at the

University of Debrecen The University of Debrecen ( ) is a university located in Debrecen, Hungary. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in Hungary ever since its establishment in 1538. The university has a well established progra ...

and Slovak and Czech studies at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

. 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 (Bulgaria) * 1980 Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (Poland)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ondruš, Šimon 1924 births 2011 deaths Academic staff of Comenius University Linguists from Slovakia People from Levoča District Academic staff of the University of Debrecen Academic staff of the University of Cologne