TROST, Paul/Pavel. Šternberg, Moravia 3.10.1907 — Prague 6.1.1987. Czech IE, Slavic and German Linguist. Professor in Prague. Son of engineer Karl Trost and his wife Paula, a Catholic family. Gymnasium in Brno, studies of IE and general, Romance, Germanic and Slavic linguistics at Prague German University in 1928-34. Ph.D. 1934 Prague, under Fr. Slotty. In 1938-44 Librarian at Brno University Library, 1945-52 Lecturer in German at Brno, also taught at Olomouc. PD 1949 Olomouc, in 1951-56 taught there general linguistics as Docent and in 1956-61 at Prague. From 1961 Professor of IE Linguistics and Baltic Philology at Prague, emeritus 1975. Married Helena Šmahelová(-Trostová, 1910–1997), an author and Ph.D.
Publications: Diss. Indogermanisches Worttabu. Manuscript of 184 p. 1934.
– “Alten- und Krankentötung als Sitte bei indogermanischen Volken”, W&S 17, 1936, 1-57.
– Hab.diss. K teorii vlastního jména. Manuscript 1949 (on the theory of personal names).
– Almost 500 articles (the majority in Czech, some in German); Studie o jazycích a literatuře. Prague 1995 (with bibliography).
Sources: J. Povejšil, Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800-1950. 1. B. 2003, 1907 (online version in Google); bibliography in comenius-bibl.wz.cz; German Wikipedia (more in *Czech version).
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