Ladislav Zgusta

Ladislav Zgusta (born March 20, 1924 in Libochovice , † April 27, 2007 in Urbana , Illinois) was a Czech linguist , Indo-Europeanist , classical philologist , name researcher and lexicographer with US citizenship.

Life

Zgusta studied Ancient Languages, Indology and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Universities of Prague and Brno . From 1951 to 1967 he worked at the Prague Academy of Sciences . From 1968 to 1970 he taught comparative linguistics at the University of Brno. In 1970 he fled to the USA via India. There he briefly taught at Cornell University , Ithaca, NY, and then went to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1971 , where he worked at the Center for Advanced Studies until 1995, since 1987 as its director. The 1971 Manual of Lexicography, prepared in Czechoslovakia , was an epoch-making book in dictionary research that made it known worldwide.

In 1992 Zgusta was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• Personal names of Greek cities on the northern Black Sea coast; the ethnic relationships, namely the relationship between the Scythians and the Sarmatians, in the light of research on names , Prague 1955
• Asia Minor personal names , Prague 1964
• Anatolian personal name clusters , Prague 1964
• New contributions to anthroponymy in Asia Minor , Prague 1970
• Manual of Lexicography , (in cooperation with V. Černý, Z. Heřmanová-Novotná, D. Heroldová ao), The Hague 1971 [1972]
• Asia Minor place names , Heidelberg 1984
• The old Ossetic inscription from the river Zelenčuk , Vienna 1987
• Lexicography today: an annotated bibliography of the theory of lexicography (with the assistance of Donna MT Cr. Farina), Tübingen 1988
• History, Languages ​​and Lexicographers , Tübingen 1992
• Lexicography then and now: selected essays , edited by Fredric SF Dolezal and Thomas BI Creamer, Tübingen 2006
• (Ed.) Problems of the dictionary , Darmstadt 1985
• (Ed.) (Together with Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann and Herbert Ernst Wiegand ), Dictionaries / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography / An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography / Encyclopédie internationale de lexicographie , 3 vols., Berlin, New York 1989, 1990, 1991
• (Ed.) (Together with Ernst Eichler , Gerold Hilty , Heinrich Löffler and Hugo Steger) Namenforschung / Name Studies / Les noms propres. An international handbook on onomastics / An International Handbook of Onomastics / Manuel international d'onomastique , 3 vols., Berlin, New York 1995, 1996

literature

• Braj B. Kachru, Henry Kahane (Eds.): Cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary. Studies in honor of Ladislav Zgusta . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-30964-4 ( Lexicographica Series maior 64).
• Hans Henrich Hock (Ed.): Historical, Indo-European, and Lexicographical Studies. A Festschrift for Ladislav Zgusta on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1997, ISBN 3-11-012884-5 ( Trends in linguistics Studies and monographs 90).

Web link

• Literature by and about Ladislav Zgusta in the catalog of the German National Library