Rudolf Jan Slabý
Rudolf Jan Slabý (born January 25, 1885 in Černošice , † July 2, 1957 in Prague ) was a German-Czech Romance philologist , translator and lexicographer.
life and work
Slabý studied Slavic, German and Romance philology in Prague and Berlin. In 1914 he settled in Barcelona and translated a large number of Slavic authors into Catalan and Spanish, as well as texts from English, German and Scandinavian provenance, as well as Spanish and Catalan authors into Czech. Slabý is best known as the author (together with Rudolf Grossmann) of Slabý-Grossmann. Dictionary of Spanish and German, Vol. 1: Spanish-German , Leipzig 1932 (5th edition, Wiesbaden 2001)
literature
- Manuel Llanas / Ramon Pinyol Torrents: Rudolf J. Slabý (1885–1957), mediador entre les cultures eslaves i les hispàniques, in: Discurso sobre fronteras - Fronteras del discurso. Estudios del ámbito ibérico e iberoamericano , Łask 2009, pp. 35–47.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Jan Slabý in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature and other media by and about Rudolf Jan Slabý in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Slabý, Rudolf Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slabý, Rudolf J .; Slabý, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Czech Romance studies, translator and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Černošice |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd July 1957 |
| Place of death | Prague |