Jiří Polívka

Czech ethnographer, linguist, literature historian, literary theorist, professor, publicist, university educator and science writer (1858–1933)

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Lived 1858–1933, aged 75

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1858–1933
Aged 75

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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.