Miroslav Komárek

Komárek was born in Lazníky near Přerov. He graduated from a gymnasium in Olomouc in 1943, but was deployed as a labourer until the end of the wartime occupation. After the war he majored in Czech and Russian at Charles University in Prague, then returned to Olomouc, and obtained a doctor of philosophy (PhDr.) degree from Palacký University in 1949.[1][2]

Komárek began to teach at the Faculty of Arts[3] at Palacký University after completing his doctorate, where he went on to spend his entire professional career, spanning over six decades.[1][4] His first major work, published in 1958, was the first in a series of textbooks on Czech historical linguistics, focused on phonetics.[2] In 1962 he habilitated and twenty years later obtained the title of Doctor of Science (DrSc.).[1] In 1979 he published Příspěvky k české morfologii (Contributions to Czech morphology), which became an oft cited work in papers on Czech morphology.[4] In 2005 he became a professor emeritus at Palacký University.[1] A year before his death, in 2012 he published Dějiny českého jazyka (History of the Czech language), which was a summary of his academic work.[4]

He was heavily influenced by the Prague linguistic circle,[1] and represented their school of thought, structural linguistics, on the international stage within the field of Slavic studies.[5] He also cited prominent Czech philologist Jan Gebauer as a major influence;[1] his 1982 work outlining the phonological development of Czech referenced and commented on Gebauer's historical grammar extensively.[6] He was a regular contributor to the Czech Language Institute's journal Slovo a slovesnost (Word and Literature), eventually joining the editorial board of that journal.[4]

• Historická mluvnice česká 1 – Hláskosloví (Historical Czech grammar 1 – Phonetics), 1958
• Język czeski – Tymczasowy podręcznik dla klasy dziewiątej dziewięcioletniej szkoły podstawowej z polskim językiem nauczania (Czech language – Temporary handbook for grade nine in nine-year elementary schools with Polish as the language of instruction), 1967
• Język czeski dla klasy dziewiątej dziewięcioletniej szkoły podstawowej z polskim językiem nauczania (Czech language for grade nine in nine-year elementary schools with Polish as the language of instruction), 1968
• Nástin morfologického vývoje českého jazyka (Outline of the morphological development of the Czech language), 1976
• K aktuálním metodologickým otázkám jazykovědy (On current methodological issues in linguistics), 1978
• Příspěvky k české morfologii (Contributions to Czech morphology), 1979
• Nástin fonologického vývoje českého jazyka (Outline of the phonological development of the Czech language), 1982
• Dějiny českého jazyka (History of the Czech language), 2012[7]

• Hirschová, Milada (1999). "Miroslav Komárek pětasedmdesátiletý (Miroslav Komárek is 75 years old)". Slovo a Slovesnost (in Czech). 60 (3): 238–239. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
• Janečka, Martin (2014). "Za profesorem Miroslavem Komárkem" (PDF). Linguistica Brunensia (in Czech). 62 (1): 99–101. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
• Luelsdorff, Philip (2004). The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics: A Short Introduction. John Benjamins.

• List of articles in Slovo a slovesnost