Abstract
Petr Sgall, born in 1926 in Cheske Budejovice (Southern Bohemia), graduated from Charles University in Prague with a degree in General and Indo–European Linguistics. Appointed Teaching Assistant in 1958, he began studies toward a Ph.D. in mathematical linguistics, which he obtained in 1966. From then on, he devoted himself to the development of formal and computational linguistics, in relation to the development of automated translation. At the end of the 1950s, he set up a team at Charles University, located first at the Faculty of Literature, then at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. In 1967, he was appointed Research Director in Theoretical Linguistics and Natural Languages Automated Treatment within the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. In 1990, he became Professor of General Linguistics within the Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences. Petr Sgall has also been Director of the Laboratory of Algebra Linguistics from 1968 on, and, since 1990, Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Automated Linguistics.
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