Zoe Hauptová

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Zoe Hauptová (9 February 1929 – 23 January 2012) was a Czech linguist who specialized in Slavic studies. She was born in Brno and grew up in Moravské Budějovice before moving to Prague with her mother. She finished high school in Prague in 1948 and studied Czech, Polish and Slavic philology at Charles University, later focusing on Old Church Slavonic. She also studied in Budapest. She earned a PhD in 1951 and a Candidate of Sciences in 1958.

In 1952 she became a researcher at the Slavonic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and began work on the Old Church Slavonic Dictionary, which grew to more than 3,000 pages and was published between 1966 and 1997. She served as chief editor of the dictionary in the early 1970s. She also contributed to the Old Slavonic Etymological Dictionary and the Old Church Slavonic Monuments.

From 1995 to 2003 she was president of the Commission for Church Slavonic Dictionaries at the International Committee of Slavicists. She lectured on paleoslavic and comparative Slavonic linguistics at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (habilitation in 1990) and also taught at Charles University in Prague. She co-edited two influential anthologies: The Golden Age of Bulgarian Literature and The Writing of the Russian Middle Ages.

Her research covered general and comparative Slavonic studies, Old Church Slavonic grammar, lexicography and textology, Slavic–Hungarian language relations and Slavic history. Her partner was Petra Fisherová, a painter and graphic artist. She also sometimes worked as a lay preacher in the Czech Brethren church in Nejdek. She died in Prague in 2012.