Josef Benes

January 11, 1902 (age 82)

Prachatice, Prachatice District, Czechoslovakian Republic

Later, he worked on several places as a teacher in schools providing secondary education. After World World War II he briefly worked at the Ministry of Education, then returned to the teaching. From the beginning of the 1960s he lectured at pedagogic institutes in Liberec and Ústí nad Labem. Since 1933 he published articles about Czechoslovakian surnames in specialised journals (as Naše řeč or Zpravodaj místopisné komise ČSAV, ZMK). In 1962 he published book "About Czechoslovakian Surnames". Posthumously "German Surnames of Czechs" was published in 1998, with Marie Nováková as an editors Beneš belongs, together with Vladimír Šmilauer, January Svoboda and Antonín Profous, among founders of Czechoslovakian anthroponymy and onomastics.

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Beneš studied Bohemistics and Germanistics at the Charles University in Prague, ending in 1930.

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Later, he worked on several places as a teacher in schools providing secondary education. After World World War II he briefly worked at the Ministry of Education, then returned to the teaching. From the beginning of the 1960s he lectured at pedagogic institutes in Liberec and Ústí nad Labem.

Since 1933 he published articles about Czechoslovakian surnames in specialised journals (as Naše řeč or Zpravodaj místopisné komise ČSAV, ZMK).

In 1962 he published book "About Czechoslovakian Surnames". Posthumously "German Surnames of Czechs" was published in 1998, with Marie Nováková as an editors

Beneš belongs, together with Vladimír Šmilauer, January Svoboda and Antonín Profous, among founders of Czechoslovakian anthroponymy and onomastics.

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