Abstract
This study focuses on life and works of professor Jaroslav Oliverius (*1933), a prominent Czech arabist and hebraist, who is currently professor emeritus at the Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. First, authors concentrate on his life and studies during which he met some outstanding Czechoslovak orientalists.
The authors also pay attention to more than five decades of his dedicated teaching within both Arabic and Hebrew studies. However, in the very core of the article the authors attempt to review Oliverius' scholarly work comprising domains such as Arabic folk literature, classical and modern Arabic literature, Egyptian literary criticism and Egyptian drama.
The last part of the study deals with Oliverius' translation activities from both classical and modern Arabic literature.