Vatroslav Jagić

Vatroslav Jagić ( born July 6, 1838 in Varaždin, † August 5, 1923 in Vienna) was a Croatian linguist. He is considered one of the most important slavonicists the second half of the 19th century and one of the last who could over look the part nor in its entirety.

Life

Jagić visited in his home town of Varaždin primary school and the first classes of the high school, the high school, he took off in Zagreb. In Vienna he studied classical philology and out - at Francesco Miklošič - Slavic. After his studies he had from 1860 to 1870 a job as a high school teacher in Zagreb paused and was for a time worked as second secretary of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. During this time, in 1869, Jagić was elected a full member of the Yugoslav and an associate member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

After receiving his doctorate in 1871 he went to linguistic studies on trips to Germany and Russia. In 1872 he took over the chair of comparative philology at the University of Odessa, which he exchanged in 1874 with the Chair of Slavic Languages ​​at the University of Berlin. In 1880 he was appointed professor at the University of St. Petersburg; after 1886 he succeeded his teacher Francesco Miklošič professor of Slavic philology at the University of Vienna. For a time Ossyp Makowej his employees.

1936 named to the Jagicgasse in Vienna Hietzing his honor. 1954 his portrait bust of Ivan Mestrovic was unveiled in the courtyard of the University of Vienna.

Services

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

Jagić founded in 1871 in Berlin, the journal Archives of Slavic philology, to which he as editor provided input 45. As the central monographic presentations are his history of the Church Slavonic language ( 1900) and the Istoriia slavjanskoj filologii (History of Slavic Philology, 1910) to name a few.

In the area of ​​text edition Jagić made ​​valuable contributions. Thus, his editions are Slavic Glagolitic Gospels manuscripts such as the Codex Zographensis or the Codex Marianus, despite its age of more than a hundred years to the present day prevail.