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Kamil Zvelebil was a Czech-born scholar of Indian literature and culture, specializing in Dravidian linguistics and literature. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 17 November 1927. He studied at Charles University in Prague, and later at the University of London. He was a professor at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1994. Zvelebil was a prolific author, having written more than 30 books and over 200 articles. His works include The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India (1973), Tamil Literature (1975), and The Poets of the Powers: An Anthology of Tamil Poetry (1978). He was also a translator of Tamil literature, having translated works such as the Tirukkural and the Tiruvacakam. Zvelebil was a recipient of numerous awards, including the Padma Shri, the highest civilian award in India, in 1992. He died on 2 February 2009 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Born 17 November, 1927
Birthday 17 November
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1970

In 1970, after more time at the University of Chicago, he was a visiting professor at the Collège de France in Paris. After more travel through European universities he became the professor of Dravidian linguistics and South Indian literature and culture at Utrecht University until his retirement in 1992.

1960

During the late 1960s, he made many field trips including those to South India. From 1965 to 1966, he was a temporary professor in Dravidian studies at the University of Chicago in the United States and was a visiting professor at Heidelberg University between 1967 and 1968. Furthermore, he is very well known among the scholars in Tamil Nadu and has earned a permanent place in the educational syllabus of the Dravidian states.

1952

Zvelebil also made the only known translation of the Tirukkuṛaḷ into Czech. It included some selections that appeared in Novy Orient, a Czech journal, during 1952–54.

1946

Zvelebil studied at the Charles University in Prague from 1946 to 1952 where he majored in Indology, English, literature and philosophy. After obtaining his PhD in 1952 and until 1970 he was a senior research fellow in Tamil and Dravidian linguistics and literature at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He held the role of associate professor of Tamil and Dravidian at Charles University in Prague until 1968, when he and his family (including his son, the later archaeologist, Marek Zvelebil) were forced to flee after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. They fled to the United States at first, but later settled in the Netherlands.

1927

Kamil Václav Zvelebil (November 17, 1927 – January 17, 2009) was a Czech scholar in Indian literature and linguistics, notably Tamil, Sanskrit, Dravidian linguistics and literature and philology.

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