Šimon Ondruš
Šimon Ondruš was a Slovak linguist, Slavist and indo-Europeanist, member of several international linguistic societies.Life
He studied Slovak language and philosophy at the Comenius University in Bratislava. He became a professor in 1967, then he worked in several positions at the university. The head of the Slovak Committee of Slavists. He dealt with comparative Slavic and Indo-European linguistics, especially etymology, Old Slavonic, general linguistics and history of linguistics. He taught Slovak and Czech at the University of Debrecen and Slovak and Czech studies at the University of Cologne. He translated from Hungarian and German.Selected works
- Úvod do slavistiky
- Szláv népek és nyelvek
- Úvod do štúdia jazykov
- Život a dielo Metoda, prvoučiteľa národa slovienskeho
- Odtajnené trezory
- Odtajnené trezory slov 2, 3
Awards
- 1975 Order of Cyril and Methodius
- 1980 Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
