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Bohuslav Havránek (30 January 1893 – 2 March 1978) was a Czech philologist, Bohemist, Slavist and literary historian. He worked as a university professor and was a prominent member of the Prague linguistic circle.
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Bohuslav Havránek (30 January 1893 – 2 March 1978) was a Czech philologist, Bohemist, Slavist and literary historian. He worked as a university professor and was a prominent member of the Prague linguistic circle.
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acum o lună
Life and career He was born in to the family of a teacher. After his graduation, he worked as a secondary school teacher, before completing his studies in 1928, with his work 'The Genera Verbi in the Slavic languages' ('Genera verbi v slovanských jazycích' in Czech). From 1917 to 1929, he worked as a high school professor at grammar schools in Prague (in Truhlářská and Dušní streets). He also worked in at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1926, Havránek helped found the Prague linguistic circle and was soon, alongside Vilém Mathesius, one of Czech linguistics' most important representatives and in the following years he was a co-creator of its linguistic theory and methodology. In 1935, he founded the linguistic journal Slovo a slovesnost. In 1930, he became a professor at Masaryk University in Brno, and taught there until the closing of Czech universities by the German occupation of 1939. During his time in Brno, he became close to the representatives of the Left Front. In the 1930s, he became chairman of the Society for Relations with the Soviet Union in Brno and remained so until its dissolution in 1939. Together with other left-leaning intellectuals, he signed the…
