HUJER, Oldřich. Paceřice, Liberec region 25.11.1880 — Prague 4.6.1942. Czech IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Prague. Son of Jan Hujer and Josefa Kovářova. Student of Zubatý at Prague, Ph.D. 1910. Also studied 1909-10 at Leipzig under Leskien. PD 1911 Prague, 1919 ao, Professor and then succeeded Zubatý as the ord. Professor of Comparative IE Linguistics at Charles University in Prague in 1924-1942. Also taught at Brno.
Publications: Diss. on Slavic declension 1910.
– Úvod do dějin jazyka českého. Prague 1914 (History of Czech language)
– “Des recherches tchèques sur la linguistique comparée ainsi que sur la philologie hindoue et orientale”, Revue des travaux scientifiques tchécoslovaques, Section I. Praha 1919 (1924), 115-122
– Many articles, mainly in Czech, often on Balto-Slavic, nothing specially about Indo-Iranian, but often noting Sanskrit parallels.
Sources: *V. Machek, Listy filologické 69, 1942, 81-84; P. Poucha briefly in ArO 19, 1951, 187f.; *Petr Procházka, Oldřich Hujer (1880 – 1942) a kontinuita československé baltistiky. 50 p. Brno 2010 (cand. diss. in Czech, available in Internet); Kdo byl kdo – čeští a slovenští orientalisté; Russian and *Czech Wikipedia with photo and further references.
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