National Professor Dr Anisuzzaman has been laid to rest at Azimpur Graveyard in Dhaka on Friday morning.
Volunteers of Al-Markazul Islami, an organisation that has been performing funeral rituals for the patients who die from COVID-19, conducted his last rites around 10am.
His younger brother Akhtaruzzaman confirmed his burial to Jago News.
Earlier on Thursday afternoon, Dr Anisuzzaman died of old age complications at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH). He tested positive for coronavirus after his death.
Dr Anisuzzaman was an eminent educationist, writer and Emeritus Professor of Bangla Language and Literature department at the University of Dhaka.
He was a recipient of the Bangla Academy award for research (1970) and the Ekushe Padak, an award given by the State, for his contribution to education (1983). The Rabindra Bharati conferred upon him an honorary D. Litt (2005) and the University of Calcutta the Sarojini Basu Medal (2008).
He was a member of the Planning Commission to the government of Bangladesh during the Liberation War and the President of the Bangla Academy afterwards. He was elected a Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.