Pavel Jozef Šafárik

Pavel Jozef Šafárik (also in the spellings Safary / Sheep ( f) ARY / Schafary / Schaffarik / Saf ( f) arik / Safarik / Szafarzik ), Czech Pavel Josef Šafařík, neuslowak. Pavol Jozef Šafárik, German Paul Joseph Schaffarik, Latin Paulus Josephus Schaffarik, Hungarian Pál József Saf ( f) arik; Born May 13, 1795 in Kobeliarovo, Slovakia; † June 26, 1861 in Prague) was a Slovak scientist and poet.

Šafárik applies besides Josef Dobrovský and Jernej Kopitar as one of the founders of scientific Slavic. Ján Kollár With he contributed greatly to the revival of Slovak culture.

Life

From 1819 to 1833 he was a teacher and later director of the Serbian gymnasium in Novi Sad, then a journalist, from 1837-47 censor and in 1841 curator of the Prague University Library. In 1848 he was appointed to the Chair of Comparative Slavonic Philology at the University of Prague as associate professor, but renounced in favor of František Ladislav Čelakovský to this office.

Šafárik was a member of many learned societies of his time. In 1840 he became a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1843 took him the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as a corresponding, in 1856 as a foreign member to. In 1847, finally, he was a founding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

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

He was the father of the chemist Vojtěch Šafařík, father of the literary historian, linguist and politician Josef Jirecek, and grandfather of the founder of Bohemian Balkanologie and Byzantine Constantinople Jirecek.

Named after Šafárik is founded in 1959, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University of Kosice. Moreover, the city Tornaľa in the south of central Slovakia from 1948 to 1990 in his honor was called Šafárikovo.

Works

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

• Počátkové Českého básnictví, obzvláště prozodie (1818, Bratislava ), with František Palacký [literally: Basics of Bohemian seal, in particular prosody ]
• Novi Graeci non uniti rite gymnasii neoplate auspicia feliciter capta. Adnexa est oratio Pauli Josephi Schaffarik (1819, Novi Sad )
• The collection of songs písně světské lidu Slovenského v Uhrich. Sebrané a vydané od PJ Šafárika, Jána Blahoslava a jiných. 1-2 ( 1823-27, Prague ) / " narodnie zpiewanky - písně swetské Slowáků v Uhrách " ( 1834-1835, Buda ), Ján Kollár with [literally: Secular songs of the Slovak people in the ( UK ) Hungary. Collected and edited by PJ Šafárik, Ján Blahoslav and others. 1-2 / folk songs - Secular Songs of the Slovaks in the ( UK ) Hungary ]
• History of the Slavic language and literature in all dialects (1826, Pest )
• About the origin of the Slavs by Lorenz Surowiecki (1828, Buda )
• Serbian Reading grains or historical- critical examination of the Serbian dialect (1833, Pest )
• Slovanské starožitnosti (1837, Prague ), his major work, German version Slavic antiquities, the first comprehensive book on the history and culture of the Slavs.
• Monumenta illyrica (1839, Prague )
• Slovanský národopis (1842, Prague ) [literally: Slavonic Ethnology ]
• The oldest monuments of the Czech language ... (1840, Prague ), with František Palacký
• Počátkové staročeské mluvnice in: Výbor (1845 ) [literally: Fundamentals of old Bohemian grammar ]
• Památky dřevního pisemnictví Jihoslovanů (1851, Prague ) [literally: the monuments of ancient literature of the South Slavs ]
• Památky hlaholského pisemnictví (1853, Prague ) [literally: Monuments of the Glagolitic literacy ]
• Glagolitic Fragments (1857, Prague ), with Konstantin Höfler
• About the origin and home of the Glagolitismus (1858, Prague )
• History of the South Slav literature 1-3 ( 1864-65, Prague )