Vilém Mathesius

male, deceased (1945)
linguist, english literature, czech, syntax, linguistics, grammar…University of Prague, Praguelinguisticcircle
Vilém Mathesius was a Czech linguist and literary historian, a scholar of English and Czech literature. His brother was Bohumil Mathesius. In 1912 h...

René Wellek

male, deceased (1995)
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, From Prague, German, comparative, czech…Praguelinguisticcircle, Prague School
René Wellek was a Czech-German comparative literary critic. Wellek, along with Erich Auerbach, is remembered as an eminent product of the Central E...

Jan Mukařovský

male, deceased (1975)
aesthetician, czech, Literary critic, structuralism, Literary theory, Russian formalism…Praguelinguisticcircle, Charles University of Prague
Jan Mukařovský was a Czech literary theoretic and aesthetician. He was professor at the Charles University of Prague. He is well known for his as...

Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay

male, deceased (1929)
Warsaw University alumni, phonology, polish, krakow, linguistics, leningrad…Praguelinguisticcircle, Prague School, Polish Linguistic Society
Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay. Between 1894 and 1898 he served the same post at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków only to be appointed t...