Pavel Jozef Šafárik

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Pavel Jozef Šafárik

Pavel Jozef Šafárik (also in the spellings Safáry / Schaf (f) áry / Schafary / Schaffarik / Saf (f) arik / Šafarík / Szafarzik ), Czech Pavel Josef Šafařík , New Slovak Pavol Jozef Šafárik , German Paul Joseph Schaffarikus Schaffarik Joseph , Latin Paul Joseph , Hungarian Pál József Saf (f) arik ; * May 13, 1795 in Schwarzseifen , Kingdom of Hungary ; today Kobeliarovo , Slovakia ; † June 26, 1861 in Prague ) was a Slovak scientist and poet .

Along with Josef Dobrovský and Jernej Kopitar, Šafárik is considered to be one of the founders of Slavic studies . With Ján Kollár he contributed significantly to the awakening of Slovak culture.

Life

From 1819 to 1833 he was a teacher and later director of the Serbian grammar school in Novi Sad , then a journalist, from 1837 to 1847 censor and from 1841 curator of the Prague University Library . In 1848 he was appointed to the chair for Comparative Slavic Philology at the University of Prague as an associate professor, but renounced this position in favor of František Ladislav Čelakovský .

Šafárik was a member of numerous learned societies of his time. In 1839 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and in 1840 the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, in 1843 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences accepted him as a corresponding member and in 1856 as a foreign member. In 1855 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1847 he was finally a founding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Although he called himself a Slovak, Šafárik wrote almost exclusively in Czech and German and took a critical position on the written Slovak language proposed by Ľudovít Štúr .

He was the father of the chemist Vojtěch Šafařík , the father-in-law of the literary historian, linguist and politician Josef Jireček , and the grandfather of the founder of the Bohemian Balkan Studies and Byzantine Studies Konstantin Jireček .

He is buried in the Olšany Cemetery in Prague. The Pavol-Jozef-Šafárik University in Košice, founded in 1959, is named after Šafárik . In addition, the city of Tornaľa in southern central Slovakia was named Šafárikovo in his honor from 1948 to 1990 .

Works

poetry

  • Ode festiva ... ( Levoča , 1814)
  • Tatranská múza s lyrou slovanskou (Levoča, 1814) [literally: The Tatra muse with a Slavic lyre]

Scientific works

  • Počátkové českého básnictví, obzvláště prozodie (1818, Pressburg ), with František Palacký [literally: basics of Bohemian poetry, especially prosody]
  • Novi Graeci non uniti ritus gymnasii neoplate auspicia feliciter capta. Adnexa est oratio Pauli Josephi Schaffarik (1819, Novi Sad)
  • The song collection Písně světské lidu slovenského v Uhřích. Sebrané a vydané od PJ Šafárika, Jána Blahoslava a jiných. 1-2 (1823–27, Prague) / "Národnie zpiewanky - Pisne swetské Slowáků v Uhrách" (1834–1835, Buda ), with Ján Kollár [literally: Secular songs of the Slovak people in (Kingdom) Hungary. Collected and edited by PJ Šafárik, Ján Blahoslav and others. 1-2 / Folk songs - secular songs of the Slovaks in (Kingdom) Hungary]
  • History of the Slavic language and literature in all dialects (1826, Pest ),
  • About the Descent of the Slavs according to Lorenz Surowiecki (1828, Buda)
  • Serbian reading grains or historical-critical illumination of the Serbian dialect (1833, Pest)
  • Slovanské starožitnosti (1837, Prague), his main work, German version Slavic Antiquities , the first comprehensive work on the culture and history of the Slavs .
  • Monumenta Illyrica (1839, Prague)
  • Slovanský národopis (1842, Prague) [literally: Slavic ethnology]
  • Slavic Antiquities (translation, edited by Heinrich Wuttke )
    • Volume 1, Leipzig 1843 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 2, Leipzig 1844 ( e-copy ).
  • The oldest monuments of the Bohemian language ... (1840, Prague), with František Palacký
  • Počátkové staročeské mluvnice in: Výbor (1845) [literally: basics of old Bohemian grammar]
  • Památky dřevního pisemnictví Jihoslovanů (1851, Prague) [literally: monuments of the ancient literature of the southern Slavs]
  • Památky hlaholského pisemnictví (1853, Prague) [literally: monuments of Glagolitic literature]
  • with Constantin von Höfler : Glagolitic Fragments (1857, Prague)
  • About the origin and homeland of Glagolitism (1858, Prague)
  • History of South Slavic Literature 1-3 (1864–65, Prague)

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Pavel Jozef Šafárik  - sources and full texts
Commons : Pavel Jozef Šafárik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 210.
personal data
SURNAME Šafárik, Pavel Jozef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaffarik, Paul Joseph; Šafařík, Pavel Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak scientist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobeliarovo
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1861
Place of death Prague