Jernej kopitar et les debuts de la slavistique europeenne
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Abstract EN:
Together with j. Dobrovsky and a. J. Vostokov, jernej kopitar (1780-1844) is considered as the founder of modern slavic studies. He was born in a family aof slovene peasants and educated in an atmosphere of intellectual veneration for both antiquity and enlightenment. He devoted his whole life to the study and promotion of slavic languages and cultures. He wrote the first slovene scientific grammar then settled down in vienna where he became curator of the imperial library and censor for all books in southern slavic, rumanian and modern greek languages. It was thanks to him that the capital of austria became the meeting place for the greatest european scholars such as j. Dobrovsky, j. Grimm, w. Humboldt, l. Ranke, g. Pertz. . . He endeavoured to include slavic studies in the general linguistic sciences and published a number of ancient texts (glagolita clozianus, freising monuments texte du sacre). Together with j. Dobrovsky he prepared the first gram mar of old slavonic. At the same time he helped vuk karadzic to reform the serbian language and revealed the serbian popular poetry to the western public. His researches, his articles, his initiatives considerably influenced his successors like f. Miklosic as well as the cultu
Abstract FR:
Jernej kopitar (1780-1844) est considere avec j. Dobrovsky et a. H. Vostokov comme fondateur des etudes slaves modernes. Fils d'un paysan slovene, il fut forme dans un milieu acquis aux ideaux de l'antiquite et des lumieres. Il ecrivit la premiere grammaire slovene scientifiqsue et s'installa a vienne ou il devint administrateur de la bibliotheque imperiale et censeur pour les livres en langues slaves du sud, en roumain et en grec moderne. Il consacra toute sa vie a l'etude et a la promotion deslangues slaves. Grace a kopitar vienne devint le point de rencontre des grands erudits tels que j. Dobrovsky ; j. Grimm, w. Humboldt, l. Banke ; g. Pertz etc. Il s'efforca d'integrer la slavistique dans les sciences linguistiques generales et publia de nombreux textes anciens (glagolita clozianus, monuments de freising, texte du sacre. . . ) ; avec j. Dobrovsky il prepara la premiere grammaire du vieux slave. Il aida vuk karadzic a reformer la langue serbe et fit connaitre la poesie populaire serbe au public occidental. Ses recherches, ses articles, ses initiatives eurent une influence considerable sur ses successeurs comme f. Miklosic ainsi que sur toute l'histoire culturelle des peuples de l'europe centrale et balkanique.