Word: jakobson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the long hours. Jakobson puts in at his desk, he is in excellent health. He has always maintained his physical condition by taking long walks along country roads. While in Czechoslovakia, he and his wife used to walk 230 miles from Bruno to Prague whenever a visit to the city was necessary. When he is staying at his favorite Czech farmhouse in the Catskills, he takes regular hikes and, according to his former secretary, will almost break river ice for a morning swim. A year ago while Jakobson was hiking along a highway, a car struck...
...Jakobson developed walking as a hobby on his frequent study trips to primitive central Russia. He was born in Tsarist Moscow and a childhood interest in the structure of poetry led him to his present field-Slavic linguistics. As a student in Russia he was outstanding and had achieved a knowledge of some obscure Silberian dialects by the time most people enter college. Jakobson soon became disillusioned with the new Communist government and in 1920 moved to Prague...
...Czech capital Jakobson built his reputation as a linguist and his researches resulted in scores of important monographs. He mixed crudite dissertations with vitriolic polemic against the rising Nazi Party. Later, when the Germans invaded his adopted country, Jakobson, who was then living in Brno, became a refugee for the second time. "Few people knew the Germans were going to invade the next morning," he says. "The news was announced on the radio and we left Brno for Prague the same night. This time we didn't walk, however, for there was no time. I had to burn my valuable...
When the Germans overran Norway in April of 1940, Jakobson field to Sweden and finally to the United States. In this country he received a teaching position at Columbia and continued his work on the Igor Tale, the focal point of all his study. He has been devoting virtually all his research time to this Russian epic, and it is the main concern of his seminars...
When the University enlarged its Slavic department in 1949, Jakobson and his wife came to Harvard-he as a professor of Slavic and she as a lecturer in Czechoslovakian. But Harvard got more than two new additions to its Slavic staff since most of the devoted graduate students who were working with Jakobson at Columbia followed the scholar up to Cambridge...