Petr Sgall
Czech linguist (1926–2019)
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Petr Sgall (27 May 1926 – 28 May 2019) was a Czech linguist. He specialized in dependency grammar, topic–focus articulation and Common Czech.
Born27 May 1926
Died28 May 2019 (aged 93)
Prague, Czech Republic
Resting placeOlšany Cemetery
(Prague, Czech Republic)
(Prague, Czech Republic)
ChildrenJiří Sgall
Petr Sgall | |
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| Born | 27 May 1926 |
| Died | 28 May 2019 (aged 93) Prague, Czech Republic |
| Resting place | Olšany Cemetery (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| Children | Jiří Sgall |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Charles University |
Biography
Sgall was born on 27 May 1926 in České Budějovice. His father was an attorney and a translator from Litomyšl of Jewish descent. Sgall studied at Česká Třebová high school; however he was expelled in the 1942/43 academic year because of his Jewish father. Most of Sgall's closest relatives were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
He studied Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, general linguistics and Czech at Charles University in Prague.
His son is mathematician and computer scientist Jiří Sgall.[1]
