Súčasná biografistika : Roman Jakobson a Dmytro Čyževskyj cez prizmu akademických a osobných vzťahov

Abstract

Contemporary Biography Studies: Roman Jakobson a Dmytro Čyževskyj through the Prism of Personal and Academic Relations In contemporary biography studies, academic biographies receive relatively little attention, while new archival data coming into light suggest revisions. In the field of Slavic Studies such revision is due in case of two prominent twentieth-century scholars Dmytro Čyževskyj and Roman Jakobson, whose legacies are studied independently. On the basis of her previous research (the archival studies, analyses of personal papers, administrative documents and academic publication of both scholars and their contemporaries), the author presents inter-relation of scholars’ biographies on personal and academic levels. The author argues that for both scholars’ self-realization academic environment was a crucial factor. In this relation, they greatly benefited from intellectual life in the interwar Czechoslovakia; the post-war American academic world was receptive for Jakobson and controversial for Čyževskyj, nonetheless, it defined their academic careers and unfolding of Slavic Studies in the USA and Western Europe in the decades to come.