František Kopečný

Doc. PhDr. František Kopečný, DrSc. (born 4 October 1909 in Určice – died 27 March 1990 in Vrahovice) was Czech bohemist and slavist. He was interested in etymology and dialectology.

Doc. PhDr.

František Kopečný

DrSc
Born(1909-10-04)4 October 1909
Určice
Died27 March 1990(1990-03-27) (aged 80)
Vrahovice
NationalityCzech
EducationMasaryk University
Scientific career
FieldsCzech studies and Slavistics
InstitutionsPalacký University

He studied Czech and German languages at the Masaryk University. He then worked at the Palacký University. With colleagues, he wrote an Old Slavic dictionary. From 1952, he worked at Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he wrote an Etymological dictionary (Czech: Etymologický slovník).[1]

References
  1. "František Kopečný". Institute of the Czech Language of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
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