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Kamil Václav Zvelebil (September 17, 1927 – January 17, 2009) was a distinguished Czech scholar in Indian literature and linguistics, notably Tamil, Sanskrit, Dravidian linguistics and literature and philology. == Biography == Zvelebil studied at the Charles University in Prague from 1946 to 1952 where he majored in Indology, English language, literature and philosophy. After obtaining his Ph.D in 1952 and until 1970 he was a senior research fellow in Tamil and Dravidian linguistics and literature at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He held the role of associate professor of Tamil and Dravidian at Charles University in Prague until 1968 when he and his family were forced to leave Czechoslovakia after the Soviet-led invasion of the country. During the late 1960s he made many field trips including those to South India. From 1965–1966 he was a temporary professor in Dravidian studies at the University of Chicago in the United States and was a visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg between 1967 and 1968. In 1970 after some more time at the University of Chicago he was a visiting professor at the Collège de France in Paris. After more travel through European universities he became the professor of Dravidian linguistics and South Indian literature and culture at the University of Utrecht until his retirement in 1992.〔(Prof. Dr. K.V. Zvelebil )〕 Kamil Zvelebil died on 17 January 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kamil Zvelebil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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