Died 1861-06-26.
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Pavel Jozef Šafárik
Pavel Jozef Šafárik was a Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer. He was one of the first scientific Slavists.
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culture · Slovak academic (1795–1861) · translator · linguist · poet · historian · pedagogue · journalist · writer · teacher · philologist · university teacher · also Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Pavol Jozef Šafárik, Pavel Josef Šafařík, Pavel Jozef Safarik, Pavel Josef Šafárik, Šafárik
Born 13 May 1795 · Died 26 June 1861 · Q158354
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1861· 1 entry
1857· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class (1857).
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1848· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Prague (1848).
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Was made head of the University Library of Prague and a masterful professor of Slavonic philology in the University of Prague, but resigned to the latter in 1849 and remained head of the university library only
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1846· 1 entry
Šafárik moderately criticized Ľudovít Štúr's introduction of a new Slovak standard language (1843) that replaced the previously used Lutheran standard which was closer to the Czech language (the Slovak Catholics used a d
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1837· 1 entry
Poverty compelled him to accept the uncongenial office of censor of Czech publications, which he abandoned in 1847
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1833· 1 entry
With the help of Ján Kollár and on invitation of influential friends in Prague who promised to finance him, he went to Prague, where he spent the remainder of his life
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1832· 1 entry
Finally decided to leave Novi Sad and tried to find a teacher or librarian job in Russia, but again without success
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1826· 1 entry
His Geschichte der slawischen Sprache und Literatur nach allen Mundarten was published
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1824· 1 entry
Had to renounce the post of headmaster because the Austrian government prohibited the Serbian Orthodox Church from employing Protestants from the Kingdom of Hungary
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1817· 1 entry
On his way back home, he visited Leipzig and Prague
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1816· 1 entry
Became a member of the Latin Society of Jena
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1815· 1 entry
Began to study at the University of Jena, where he turned from a poet into a scientist
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1813· 1 entry
After Katarína's death, Šafárik's father married the widow Rozália Drábová, although Šafárik and his brothers and sister were against this marriage
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1795· 1 entry
Born 1795-05-13.
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