Ladislav Zgusta

Ladislav Zgusta ( born March 20, 1924 in Libochovice, † April 27, 2007 in Urbana, Illinois) was a Czech linguist, Indo-Europeanist, classical scholar, researcher name and lexicographer with U.S. citizenship.

Zgusta studied at the Universities of Prague and Brno Classical Languages ​​, Indology and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics. From 1951 to 1967 he worked at the Prague Academy of Sciences. From 1968 to 1970 he taught comparative linguistics at the University of Brno. In 1970, he fled to India in the United States. There he taught briefly at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and then went in 1971 to the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, where at the Center for Advanced Studies he worked until 1995, in 1987 as its director. The manual prepared in Czechoslovakia of Lexicography 1971 was an epoch-making book of dictionary research that made him world-famous.

Writings (selection )

  • Personal names of Greek cities of the northern Black Sea coast; ethnic relations, namely the ratio of the Scythians and Samaten, in the light of name research, Praha 1955
  • Small Asian personal names, Prague 1964
  • Anatolian people named clans, Prague 1964
  • New posts to the Asia Minor anthroponymy, Prague 1970
  • Manual of Lexicography, ( in cooperation with V. Černý, Z. Heřmanová - Novotná, D. Heroldová ao ), The Hague 1971
  • Small Asian place names, Heidelberg 1984
  • The old Ossetic inscription from the river Zelenčuk, Vienna 1987
  • Lexicography today: an annotated bibliography of the theory of lexicography, Tübingen 1988 ( with the assistance of Donna MT Cr Farina. )
  • History, Languages ​​and Lexicographers, Tübingen 1992
  • Lexicography then and now: selected essays, edited by Fredric SF Dolezal and Thomas B.I. Creamer, Tübingen 2006
  • (Ed. ) Problems of the dictionary, Darmstadt 1985
  • ( Ed.) ( together with Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann and Herbert Ernst Wiegand ), dictionaries / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography / An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography / Encyclopédie internationale de lexicographie, 3 vols, Berlin, New York, 1989, 1990, 1991
  • ( Ed.) ( together with Ernst Eichler, Gerold Hilty, Heinrich Löffler and Hugo Steger ) name research / Name Studies / Les noms propres. An international handbook of onomastics / An International Handbook of Onomastics / Manuel international d' Onomastique, 3 vols, Berlin, New York 1995, 1996
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