Wenzel Vondrák (Czech: Václav Vondrák; 22 September 1859 – 13 August 1925) was a Czech Slavist and professor at the universities of Vienna and Brno.

Life

Vondrák was born on 22 September 1859 in Dub, modern day Czech Republic, then part of the Austrian Empire. From 1872 to 1880, Vondrák attended gymnasium in Prachatice and České Budějovice. He moved to Vienna, starting to study Roman philology, but soon switching to Slavic philology under Franz Miklosich. He obtained a doctoral degree in 1884. From 1881 to 1891, Vondrák worked as a private teacher for various aristocratic families. In 1893, he attained habilitation in Slavic languages and literature in Vienna. In 1903, he was appointed to professor extraordinarius at the Vienna University. In 1919, he was appointed to professor at the Brno University. Vondráks research contributions lie in the fields of Old Church Slavonic and comparative Slavistics, particularly grammar. He died on 13 August 1925 in Brno, Czechoslovakia.

Selected works

A full bibliography is available in Časopis pro moderní filologii 12(1) and Slavia 4(3).