Vatroslav Jagic

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Ivan Mestrovic: Bust of Vatroslav Jagić, 1954 (University of Vienna)

Vatroslav Jagić , from 1908 Vatroslav Ritter von Jagić , (born July 6, 1838 in Varaždin , Austrian Empire , † August 5, 1923 in Vienna , Republic of Austria ) was a Croatian linguist . He is considered to be one of the most important Slavists of the second half of the 19th century and one of the last who was able to survey the subject in all its breadth.

Life

Jagić attended elementary school and the first grades of grammar school in his hometown of Varaždin, and graduated from high school in Zagreb . In Vienna he then studied classical philology and - with Franc Miklošič - Slavic studies . After completing his studies, he held a position as a grammar school teacher in Zagreb from 1860 to 1870 and for a time worked as the second secretary of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts . During this time, in 1869, Jagić was elected a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and an extraordinary member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences .

After receiving his doctorate in 1871, he went on trips to Germany and Russia to study linguistics . In 1872 he took over the chair for comparative linguistic research at the University of Odessa , which he exchanged in 1874 for the chair for Slavic languages ​​at the Berlin University. In 1880 he followed a call to the University of St. Petersburg ; after 1886 he succeeded his teacher Franc Miklošič Professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Vienna . For a time Ossyp Makowej his employees.

Vatroslav Jagić died at the department for internal medicine of the Sophienspital , headed by his son Nikolaus Jagić (1875–1956) .

In 1936, Jagicgasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named in his honor. In 1954 his portrait bust of Ivan Meštrović was unveiled in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna .

Services

Jagić published numerous works on various areas of Slavic philology, including a. on the Croatian language history. He was also active in the history of science and published the correspondence between Jernej Kopitar and Josef Dobrovský . In German he wrote: "The life of the root dê in the Slavic languages" (Leipz. 1870).

Jagić founded the specialist journal Archiv für Slavische Philologie in Berlin in 1871 , to which he contributed as an editor for 45 years. The main monographic representations are his history of the origins of the Church Slavonic language (1900) and the Istorija slavjanskoj filologii (History of Slavic Philology, 1910).

Jagić also made valuable contributions in the field of text editing. His editions of Old Church Slavonic Gospel manuscripts such as those of the Codex Zographensis or the Codex Marianus are still relevant today, despite their age of more than a hundred years.

literature

Web links

Commons : Vatroslav Jagić  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hofrat Professor Dr. Knight v (on) Jagic. In:  Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 293/1908 (XLII. Year), October 24, 1908, p. 4, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
  2. ↑ Daily report. Councilor Dr. Vatroslav Jagic died. The most important Slavic philologist. In:  Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 214/1923 (LVII. Volume), August 6, 1923, p. 2, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.