Odkaz díla Václava Machka soudobé slavistice
The legacy of Václav Machek's work in contemporary Slavic studies

Summary/Abstract: The contribution makes a presentation of one of the most important figures of Czech linguists, a scholar in Slavic, Baltic and Indo‐European studies, a professor of the Brno faculty of arts, Václav Machek. In 2014, 120 years passed since his birthday. Václav Machek is known especially as a world‐renowned etymologist, a propagator of the method “Wörter und Sachen” who, thanks to this method, used findings of various scientific fields outside linguistics, particularly from ethnography, cultural history, mythology, botany, mycology, zoology and others. He initiated the founding of the Brno etymological department, one of a kind in the Czech Republic. On concrete examples the contribution shows methods of his etymological work successfully used up to the present day. Finally, samples of his scientific correspondence with renowned linguists document Machek’s position in European and world Slavic studies.

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