Ľubomír Ďurovič, a linguist and expert in Slavonic, Czech and Slovak Studies, was born on 9 February 1925 in Važec (near Liptovský Mikuláš) in Slovakia. He studied at the Faculty of Arts of the Slovak University in Bratislava between 1944 and 1947, and the last year also at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts in Prague (Slovak and Russian Language). In 1949, he was granted a year-long study stay at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University of Oslo. After his return and until 1966 he worked at the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts of the Slovak University in Bratislava (later re-named Comenius University), from 1955 as the director of the department and in 1965 and 1966 as vice-dean of the faculty. He worked as a foreign lecturer and later as an assistant professor and visiting professor at the Slavonic Institute of Uppsala University in Sweden. He became a professor of Slavonic languages at the Slavonic Institute of Lund University in 1972, where he gave lectures until his retirement in 1991. One of his best-known projects during the 1980s was research into the Serbo-Croat/Croat-Serbian mother tongue of children living in Sweden. He was vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities of Lund University from 1984-1986. He gave lectures at many foreign universities in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He was a member and later president (1988-1991) of the Scandinavian Association of Slavonic Studies. He actively participated in Czechoslovak exile activities. In 1986, he was a founding member of the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre of Independent Literature, which was founded in West Germany and led by the historian Vilém Prečan. He was vice-president of the Czechoslovak Society for Science and Art (SVU) between 1987 and 1990.