Jaroslav Vacek
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Jaroslav Vacek's Degrees
- PhD Computer Science Charles University
- Masters Mathematics Masaryk University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jaroslav Vacek was director of the Institute of South and Central Asia and former dean of the Philosophical Faculty at the Charles University in Prague, where he founded the teaching and research of Mongolian as a new subject. He was a member of the Czech Oriental Society, the Prague Linguistic Circle, and The Learned Society. He translated the Bhagavad Gita from Sanskrit into Czech. Vacek was interested mainly in linguistic problems on the Indian linguistic area and the Dravidian and Altaic relationships, where he applied new research approach. He also spoke fluent Tamil and was an authority on Tamil and Dravidian linguistics.
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