# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jiri-polivka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:36:17.586Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jiri-polivka"
name: "Jiří Polívka"
slug: "jiri-polivka"
description: "Jiří Polívka was a Czech linguist, slavist, literary historian and folklorist. He was a disciple of Jan Gebauer. In 1895, he was appointed professor at Charles University in Prague. He became a corresponding member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1901). He was a supporter of Theodor Benfey’s migration theory. His major work was the collection of Slavic Tales (1932) and studies about Slavic dialectology."
tagline: "Czech ethnographer, linguist, literature historian, literary theorist, professor, publicist, university educator and science writer (1858–1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Pol%C3%ADvka_C.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1858-03-06"
deathDate: "1933-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.26987066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Їржі Полівка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%80%D0%B6%D1%8B_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%9E%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Іржы Поліўка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Іржы Поліўка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jiří Polívka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Pol%C3%ADvka"
    title: "Jiří Polívka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Pol%C3%ADvka_(linguist)"
    title: "Jiří Polívka (linguist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jiří Polívka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jiří Polívka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Йиржи Поливка"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jiří Polívka"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%99%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B8"
    title: "Поливка, Йиржи"
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    title: "Jiří Polívka"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump