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Ladislav Zgusta (20 March 1924 in Libochovice – 27 April 2007 in
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) was a Czech-American historical linguist and lexicographer, who wrote one of the first textbooks on
lexicography Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...
. He was a professor of
linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Ling ...
and
classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
at the
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. Dutch lexicographer Piet van Sterkenburg referred to Zgusta as "the twentieth-century godfather of lexicography". He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...
in 1992, and in the same year awarded the Gold Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences for his work in Humanities.


Bibliography

* ''Die Personennamen griechischer Städte der nördlichen Schwarzmeerküste: Die ethnischen Verhältnisse, namentlich das Verhältnis der Skythen und Sarmaten, im Lichte der Namenforschung'' (Československá akademie ved. Monografie orientálního ústavu 16 ). Praha : Nakladatelstvi československé Akademie Ved 1955. * ''Kleinasiatische Personennamen'' (Československá akademie ved. Monografie orientálního ústavu 19). Prag: Verlag der Tschechoslowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1964 * ''Anatolische Personennamensippen''. Teil 1: ''Text''. Teil 2: ''Beilagen'' (Dissertationes Orientales 2). Prag: Academia 1964. * ''Neue Beiträge zur kleinasiatischen Anthroponymie'' (Dissertationes orientales 24). Prag: Academia 1970. * ''Manual of lexicography ''(Janua Linguarum. Series maior 39). Prague: Academia / The Hague, Paris: Mouton 1971 (in cooperation with V. Cerny i.a.). * ''Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen'' (Beiträge zur Namenforschung, Beih. 21). Heidelberg: Carl Winter 1984 . * ''The old Ossetic inscription from the river Zelencuk'' (Veröffentlichungen der Iranischen Kommission = Sitzungsberichte der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse 486). Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1987 * ''Lexicography today: an annotated bibliography of the theory of lexicography'' (Lexicographica. Series maior 18). Tübingen: Niemeyer 1988 (with the assistance of Donna M. T. Cr. Farina). * ''History, Languages and Lexicographers'' (Lexicographica. Series maior 41). Tübingen: Niemeyer 1992 . * ''Lexicography Then and Now. Selected Essays.'' (Lexicographica. Series maior 129. Edited by Fredric S.F. Dolezal and Thomas B.I. Creamer). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 2006.


Editor

* ''Manual of Lexicography''. 1971 .


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