Ladislav Zgusta
Lexicographer, Author
1924 – 2007
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Who was Ladislav Zgusta?
Ladislav Zgusta was a Czech–American historical linguist and lexicographer, who wrote one of the first textbooks on lexicography. He was a professor of linguistics and classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dutch lexicographer Piet van Sterkenburg referred to Zgusta as "the twentieth-century godfather of lexicography". He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, and in the same year awarded the Gold Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences for his work in Humanities.
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- Born
- Mar 20, 1924
Prague - Parents
- Spouses
- Olga Janouskova
(1948/04/10 - 2007/04/27)
- Olga Janouskova
- Children
- Nationality
- Czech Republic
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Charles University in Prague
Classical philology
( - 1949) - Indology
- PhD, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
( - 1964) - PhD, Brno University of Technology
Indo-European studies
( - 1964)
- PhD, Charles University in Prague
- Lived in
- Urbana
( - 2007/04/27)
- Urbana
- Died
- Apr 27, 2007
Urbana
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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