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The important figures of the French philology of Brno from the beginning up to now
KOUŘILOVÁ, Iva
This bachelor thesis deals with important persons of French philology of Brno from the beginning up to now and especially with one particular person - Otakar Novák. The work is divided into two parts. The first part describes the life and work of Otakar Novák before he started to work as a teacher at the university in Brno. The second part then describes his life and work since the beginning of his work in Brno until his death. Otakar Novák was born on 28 December 1905 in Vienna. He studied Czech and French language and literature at the university in Brno. Since 1946 he worked as an assistant at Charles University in Prague. In 1952 he was moved to Brno, where he worked until the end of his career. Besides being great teacher, he was lecturer at many conferences in Czechoslovakia and abroad, he has published seven books and dozens of articles, reports and reviews of French literature in particular and many forewords and afterwords to classics works of French literature. In 1969 he was elected chairman of the Circle of modern philologists and in 1964 was appointed professor of history of French literature. Otakar Novák was at the time the central figure of Romance studies of Brno and decisively contributed to its development in the area of French literary history, and helped her maintain an internationally comparable level.

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