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Ladislav Matejka

Date of Birth 30-May-1919
Place of Birth České Budějovice
(Euregio Silva Nortica, Czech Republic, České Budějovice District, South Bohemian Region, Bohemia)
Nationality Czech Republic, United States of America
Ladislav Matějka was a Czech scholar of semiotics and linguistic theory, who translated and published many contributions to Prague linguistic circle theory. He received his doctorate in Charles University in Prague in 1948 and then emigrated to the U.S. From 1956 until 1989 he taught at University of Michigan in the Slavic Department. In 1962, he founded Michigan Slavic Publications, a series that has published more than 100 volumes by authors such as Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy. From 1982-1993 he edited the series Cross Currents that published material by Milan Kundera, Josef Škvorecký and Czesław Miłosz. His academic correspondence has been deposited at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.

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