Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to Slavistics.
The key figure of this period is the philologist, historian, and founder of Slavistic studies Josef Dobrovský (1754–1829), the first Czech scholar of European stature after the White Mountain defeat.
2019, Paul Rusnock, Jan Sebestík, Bernard Bolzano: His Life and Work, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 172 more examples
In 1926 a linguistic society was founded in Prague under the name of the “Prague Linguistic Circle”. It was founded by a generation of people full of enthusiasm for what were then the most modern trends in linguistics: the ideas of De Saussure (see above §§ 248-260), Baudouin de Courtenay (see above §§ 186-189), and the Slavistic school of Fortunatov (see above §§ 192-193).
1965, Milka Ivić, translated by Muriel Heppell, Trends in Linguistics, Mouton & Co., →LCCN, page 141Karadžić’s “linguistic” Serbianism was not based on any new theory of his own but followed the erroneous teachings of the earliest Slavistic scholars, beginning with the German historian August L. von Schlözer (1735–1809).
1984, Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, Cornell University Press, published 2015, →ISBN
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