prof. PhDr.Jaroslav Bauer, CSc.

He graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Brno with degrees in Czech, Russian, and Indo-European studies. After graduating in 1955, he remained at the Faculty of Arts in Brno. From 1965, he worked as an associate professor and from 1966 as a professor of comparative Slavic linguistics. In addition to his pedagogical and extensive research activities in the field, he engaged in extraordinarily intense scientific organizational work, including serving as the secretary of the grammar commission of the International Committee of Slavists and organizing international conferences on Slavic syntax held in Brno. For his contributions to Slavic studies, he was awarded the Bulgarian Order of Cyril and Methodius, 1st class. His scientific interests were focused on Slavic syntax within the framework of comparative general linguistics, as well as within individual Slavic languages, particularly Czech, Russian, Old Church Slavonic, and Polish. For example, Vývoj českého souvětí (1960), and Skladba spisovné češtiny co-authored with M. Grepl (1972, 1980). Methodologically, he continued in the line of Czech syntactic research characterized by the names J. Zubatý, F. Trávníček, and B. Havránek. He excelled in philological precision and attention to detail, had the ability to grasp the structural connections of the phenomena under investigation, and to arrive at generalizing conclusions.

References: A. Lamprecht, SPFFBU, A 17, 1969, 7–9 (pp. 11–29 bibliography by M. Bauerová and R. Mrázek); A. Vašek, JazA 6, 1969, Nr. 1, 55–56; J. Kurz, Sl 38, 1969, 515–517; M. Grepl, SaS 30, 1969, 93n.; R. Večerka, WdSl 14, 1969, 98–102; H. Birnbaum, IJSLP 7, 1963, 211–214; R. Večerka, RočUJEP 1968–75, B. 1976, 59–61; M. Grepl, SPFFBU A 42, 1994, 131–132.