Ladislav Matějka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ladislav Matějka

Czech linguist

Date of Birth: 30-May-1919

Place of Birth: České Budějovice, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 29-Sep-2012

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Ladislav Matejka (May 30, 1919 in Ceské Budejovice – September 29, 2012 in West Newton, Massachusetts) 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 Czeslaw Milosz. His academic correspondence has been deposited at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.