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Ladislav Drozdík

لاديسلاف دروزديك

Notable figure 1930–2017 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1039; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 509 · Second source: Fiona Sophia Brown and Zuzana Gažáková, 'The Life and Legacy of Professor Ladislav Drozdík', Asian and African Studies 30/2 (2021), pp. 462–472

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Linguist of modern Arabic; translator of Kalila wa-Dimna

Biography

Born at Nová Baňa in Slovakia, he graduated from Comenius University, Bratislava, in 1953, took his doctorate in linguistics there (1967) and taught Semitic philology, later joining the Institute of Oriental and African Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He studied Modern Standard Arabic and its relation to the dialects, and derivation, compounding and borrowing in its vocabulary, and translated Kalila wa-Dimna, Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddima, poetry and folktales into Slovak.