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Jun 26, 1943 Litostrov, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic Died on 23 Jan 2017 (aged 73)
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About Jaroslav Vacek
- Jaroslav Vacek (26 June 1943 – 23 January 2017) 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.
