Šimon Ondruš

Šimon Ondruš (* 27 October 1924, Klčov – † 8 January 2011, Bratislava) was a Slovak Linguist, Slavist and Indo-Europeanist, member of several international Linguistic societies.

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 (Pro Dean, Dean, the head of the Department of Slavic and Indo-European Studies). The head of the Slovak Committee of Slavists (1969–1970). He dealt with comparative Slavic and Indo-European linguistics, especially etymology, Old Slavonic, general linguistics and history of linguistics. He taught Slovak and Czech language at the University of Debrecen and Slovak and Czech studies at the University of Cologne. He translated from Hugarian and German.

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