František Kopečný, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

František Kopečný

Czech bohemist and slavist

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1909

Place of Birth: Určice, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1990

Profession: writer, pedagogue, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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