Milena Hübschmannová
created: 16. 01. 2023 15:17 modified: 16. 01. 2023 15:18
A photo from the NGO Jekhetane-Spolu archive, the picture of Milena Hübschmannová, a leading romologist participating at the 5th Congress of the International Romani Union (IRU), which took place from 24th to 28th July, 2000 in Prague.
The photo shows her with the known historian and linguist Marcel Courthiade. The photo was published in the newspaper Romano nevo ľil, 448-454/2000 on page 14.
Doc. PhDr. Milena Hübschmannová, CSc. was a well-known Czech university pedagogue, the founder of the Romani studies department in Philosophical Faculty of the Charles’s University in Prague.
From 1951 to 1956 she studied the Hindu, Urdu and Bengal languages at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles’s University in Prague. In 1953 her life-long interest in Romani language and Romani culture had started, then she became active in the Romani emancipation movement.
She collected Romani folklore, fairy-tales, fables, songs, proverbs, magic, later also the ethnological data.
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