Đuro Daničić

Đuro Daničić ( Serbian Cyrillic Ђуро Даничић, also under the name Đura, Đorđe Popović originally; * April 6, 1825 in Novi Sad, † November 17, 1882 in Zagreb) was a Serbian philologist.

Daničić studied in Vienna Linguistics, 1856 Librarian of the National Library in Belgrade and in 1859 professor of literary history at the local Lyceum.

When he in 1865 because of his liberal views lost his job, he settled in Zagreb, where he was appointed by the South Slav Academy to its secretary. There he lived until his death.

His first work was: za srpski jezik i pravopis Council ( oven 1847), in which he revealed himself as a capable Slavic linguist. Other important writings by him are: Mala Srpska gram atlantic (1850), sintaksa Srpska (1858 ) and Oblici srpskoga jezika (1863 ). With the help of Prince Michael of Serbia and his wife Julie, who taught the Serbian Daničić, it was the latter possible to publish the great altserbische dictionary rječnik iz kniževnih starina Srpskih ( 1863-64, 3 ​​vols ). In addition Daničić got the publication of several old Serbian Vuk Karadžić writings and helped with publication of his dictionary and his national songs.

Works

• Za srpski jezik i pravopis Council ( oven 1847)
• Mala Srpska gram atlantic. U Becu 1850; Munich: Sagner, 1983.
• Srpska sintaksa (1858 )
• Oblici srpskoga jezika (1863 ).
• Istoriia oblika srpskoga ili hrvatskoga jezika do svršetka XVII vijeka. Biograd 1874; Munich: Sagner, 1981.