Jan Urban Jarník
Jan Urban Jarník (born May 25, 1848 in Pottenstein , † January 12, 1923 in Prague ) was a Czech philologist, translator and Romance writer .
Life
Jan Urban Jarník belonged to the founding generation of Bohemian Romance studies. He researched the ethnic composition and history of Transylvania . This happened at a time when many Czechs, looking for employment opportunities, left Bohemia and looked for their new home in Transylvania. During his studies in Vienna , he focused on two languages. On the one hand it was Sanskrit , on the other hand it was comparative linguistics of Romance languages. After completing his studies and a stay in Paris , he took the position of a middle school professor in Leopoldov , where he continued to devote himself intensively to the Romance languages.
After the university separated in 1882, he was appointed to Prague and initially worked as an associate professor and from 1888 as a full professor of Romance studies. He often visited Transylvania and carried out not only linguistic but also historical research there. Later his interest expanded to include the ethnic minority, the Albanians . He published folk songs and poems in Romania, translated works by Czech writers into Romanian and wrote about Romanians and his experiences in Czech magazines.
During the First World War he made a name for himself as a carer for Romanian soldiers. He was valued by the Romanians and viewed by them as their own. He was later made an honorary member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest .
Fonts
- Contribution to the phraseology von da in Romanian, Vienna & Leipzig, 1898
- Dve verse starofrancouzske legendy o sv. Katerine Alexandrinské C. Akad., 1894
- New complete index to Diez's etymological dictionary of the Romance languages: with consideration of Scheler's appendix to the fifth edition, Heilbronn: Henninger, 1889
literature
- Jarník Jan Urban. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 82.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jan Urban Jarník in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jarník, Jan Urban |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech philologist, translator and Romance scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pottenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1923 |
| Place of death | Prague |