Radoslav Večerka

He died on 18 December 2017 in Brno, at the age of 89.

He is the author and co-author of several books and more than 300 papers, articles, studies, reports, reviews, obituaries, textbooks, biographical-bibliographical portraits and jubilee materials, published in Czech and foreign periodicals. Since 1982 he is a contributor to the project Slovník jazyka staroslověnského = Lexicon linguae paleoslovenicae ("Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic"), and since 1990 also to the Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského ("Etymological Dictionary Old Church Slavonic")

His lifelong research focus is primarily on Paleoslavic studies (with a special emphasis on syntax and lexicography), on Old Church Slavonic in the larger context of cultural, historical and literary domain, as well as the comparative Slavic etymology and history. In addition to his extensive teaching, research, publishing, and editorial work he is a longtime member of the Scientific Council of the Slavic Institute at the Czech Academy of Sciencies, Czechoslovak and later Czech Committee of Slavicists and the Commission for the Old Slavic Church Slavonic Lexicology and Lexicography at the International Committee of Slavicists. He was co-organizer of international symposia on issues of Slavic syntax at the Faculty of Philosophy in the years 1961–1976, and has contributed on most of the Slavic international congresses held after the World War II.

In 1952 he received his doctorate of philosophy, from 1957 he was a candidate of philological sciences (Ph.D.), and since 1988 Doctor of Philological Sciences (DrSc.). In the period of 1967–1968 he was an associate dean at the Faculty of Philosophy in Brno, in 1990–1991 the head of Department of Czech Language at Masaryk University, in 1990–1997 Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty. As a visiting professor he lectured at the universities of Erlangen, Munster, Regensburg, Heidelberg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo, Budapest, Szeged and Vienna.

Večerka was born in Brno. He graduated in Czech, Russian and Slavic comparative linguistics at the Masaryk University in Brno. His teachers included prominent Paleo-Slavists such as Josef Kurz, Bohemists such as František Trávníček and Adolf Kellner, Indo-Europeanist Václav Machek and the founder of the Czech School in Comparative Literature Frank Wollman. Already during the studies he began his educational work as an assistant (1950–1952), and after graduation he remained working at the faculty (1952–1955 as a scientific intern; 1955–1964 as an Assistant Professor, 1964–1990 as an Associate Professor, 1994–present as a full Professor of Slavic Linguistics and Literary Studies, now professor emeritus).

Radoslav Večerka (18 April 1928 – 18 December 2017) was a Czech linguist, university professor, journalist, editor and literary scholar active in the field of Slavic studies with a focus on paleography, comparative studies of Slavic languages and Slavic history.