His teachers included prominent Paleo-Slavists such as Josef Kurz, Bohemists such as František Trávníček and Adolf Kellner, Indo-Europeanist Václav Machek and the founder of the Czech School in Comparative Literature Frank Wollman.
Václav Havel | Karel Václav Rais | Vaclav Vaca | Václav Klaus | Václav Hudeček | Václav Patejdl | Vaclav Klaus | Václav Kaplický | Václav Trégl | Václav Neckář | Jan Václav Voříšek | Václav Vojta | Václav Talich | Václav Špála | Václav Milík, Sr. | Václav Machek | Václav Kliment Klicpera | Václav Chvátal | Václav |