Kamil Zvelebil

Kamil Václav Zvelebil

Professor Dr. Kamil Václav Zvelebil, Ph.D.

Professor Dr. Kamil Václav Zvelebil, Ph.D.
Born (1927-09-17)September 17, 1927
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died January 17, 2009(2009-01-17) (aged 81)
Nationality Czech
Institutions Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
University of Chicago
University of Heidelberg
Charles University
Collège de France
University of Leiden
University of Utrecht
Alma mater Charles University
Notable awards Czech Union of Writers
Sahitya Akademi

Kamil Václav Zvelebil (September 17, 1927 – January 17, 2009) was a distinguished Czech scholar in Indian literature and linguistics, notably Tamil, Sanskrit, Dravidian linguistics and literature and philology.

Biography

Zvelebil studied at the Charles University in Prague from 1946 to 1952 where he majored in Indology, English language, literature and philosophy. After obtaining his Ph.D in 1952 and until 1970 he was a senior research fellow in Tamil and Dravidian linguistics and literature at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He held the role of associate professor of Tamil and Dravidian at Charles University in Prague until 1968, when he and his family were forced to flee after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

During the late 1960s he made many field trips including those to South India. From 1965–1966 he was a temporary professor in Dravidian studies at the University of Chicago in the United States and was a visiting professor at Heidelberg University between 1967 and 1968.

In 1970 after some more time at the University of Chicago he was a visiting professor at the Collège de France in Paris. After more travel through European universities he became the professor of Dravidian linguistics and South Indian literature and culture at Utrecht University until his retirement in 1992.[1]

Kamil Zvelebil died on 17 January 2009.

Books

He has authored numerous books and articles on Dravidian linguistics and literature. Some of them are:

Bibliography

Kamil Zvelebil has authored more than 500 bibliographic items including books, articles and reviews and translations. A comprehensive list [2] is below.

References

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