Jernej Kopitar
Bartholomäus (Jernej) Kopitar (born August 21, 1780 in Repnje , Krain ; † August 11, 1844 in Vienna ) was a Slovenian linguist and Slavist . Together with Josef Dobrovský and Pavel Jozef Šafárik, he is one of the founders of scientific Slavic studies and a pioneer of Austro-Slavism .
Live and act
After graduating high school in Ljubljana (Ljubljana) and tutor activities Kopitar went to Vienna, where he Jura studied and with Slavic languages employed. From 1810 he was employed at the Vienna Court Library , among other things as a censor of Slavic and Greek books.
Kopitar stood at the beginning of the Slovenian scientific grammar writing. In 1808 he published a “Grammar of the Slavic Language in Carniola, Carinthia and Steyermark”, and a year later a “Grammar of Slovenian”. He also made valuable contributions in the field of Slavic text editions such as Glagolita Clozianus (1836), which contains the so-called " Freising monuments ", the first long Slavic text written in Latin script , which is considered the first textual witness of the Slovene language . In the introduction to this work, Kopitar sets up the so-called Pannonian theory , which states that the region of origin of the Old Church Slavonic language is Slovenia or Pannonia .
Furthermore Kopitar Vuk Karadžić supported in the creation of a Serbian literary language based on vernacular dialects .
In 1837 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . For his services he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite for science and arts by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV on May 31, 1842 .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kopitar, Bartholomäus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, pp. 437–442 ( digitized version ).
- Hafner: Kopitar Bartholomäus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 116 f. (Direct links on p. 116 , p. 117 ).
- J. Hahn: Kopitar, Bartholomäus . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 2. Munich 1976, p. 470 f.
- Josef Vintr: Kopitar, Bartholomäus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 566 ( digitized version ).
- Walter Lukan (Ed.): Bartholomäus (Jernej) Kopitar. New studies and materials on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his death . Austrian Institute for East and Southeast Europe. Osthefte 11, Verlag Böhlau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-205-98235-5 ; also as: Österreichische Osthefte 36.1994,3.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jernej Kopitar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Jernej Kopitar in the German Digital Library
- Literature by and about Bartholomäus (Jernej) Kopitar in the Austrian National Library
- Jernej Kopitar, Die Slaven im Thale Resia , in: Renewed vaterländische Blätter for the Austrian Imperial State 9/31 (1816), pp. 176–180. Resianica , University of Padua (HTML)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 137.
- ↑ The Order pour le merite for science and the arts. The members of the order, Volume I, (1842–1883), Gebr. Mann-Verlag, Berlin 1975
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kopitar, Jernej |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kopitar, Bartholomew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Slovenian linguist and Slavist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Repnje |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1844 |
| Place of death | Vienna |