prof. PhDr. Adolf Kellner, CSc.

He studied Slavic philology and Romance studies at the Faculty of Arts in Brno, expanding his Slavic education with Polish studies through a postgraduate stay with K. Nitsche in Krakow. In 1945, he was initially called to the Faculty of Arts in Brno as an associate professor, later becoming a full professor of Slavic linguistics. At the faculty, he served as the director of the library of the Slavic Seminar. He founded the dialectological department at the Brno branch of the academic Institute of the Czech Language (ÚJČ), was a member of the Silesian Study Institute, and the dialectological commission of the Matice moravská. He researched Czech dialectology. His monographs, such as Štramberské nářečí (1939) and especially Východolašská nářečí I, II (1946, 1949), opened new paths in dialectological research and pioneered a new type of dialect monographs, which for a time became a model for the dialectological works of his collaborators and students. Kellner also intensely engaged with theoretical and methodological questions in the field of dialectology. A dense synthesis of his views on dialectological work was presented in the textbook Úvod do dialektologie (1954). He based his work on the theoretical principles of the linguistic-geographic school of Romance languages and the systemic conception of language in the spirit of the Prague School. He addressed complex issues of language contact, language blending, and transitional dialects.

L.: M. Jelínek, ČMM 72, 1953, 184–190; A. Lamprecht, SaS 14, 1953, 97–102; V. Vážný, NŘ 36, 1953, 189–190; S. Králík, SlSb 51, 1953, 417–418; (collection) Adolfu Kellnerovi, Op. 1954; J. Skulina, SPFFBU A 2, 1954, 91–95 (including bibliography 95–97); J. Balhar, NŘ 67, 1984, 41–43.