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DOBROWSKY, JOSEPH (1753-1829)

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DOBROWSKY, See also:JOSEPH (1753-1829) , Hungarian philologist, was See also:born of Bohemian parentage. at Gjermet, near Raab, in See also:Hungary. He received his first See also:education in the See also:German school at Bischofteinitz, made his first acquaintance with Bohemian at the Deutschbrod gymnasium, studied for some See also:time under the See also:Jesuits at Klattau, and then proceeded to the university of See also:Prague. In 1772 he was admitted among the Jesuits at Briinn; but on the See also:dissolution of the See also:order in 1773 he returned to Prague to study See also:theology. After holding for some time the See also:office of See also:tutor in the See also:family of See also:Count Nostitz, he obtained an See also:appointment first as See also:vice-See also:rector, and then as rector, in the See also:general See also:seminary at Hradisch; but in 1790 he lost his See also:post through the abolition of the seminaries throughout See also:Austria, and returned as a See also:guest to the See also:house of the count. In 1792 he was commissioned by the Bohemian See also:Academy of Sciences to visit See also:Stockholm, See also:Abo, See also:Petersburg and See also:Moscow in See also:search of the -See also:manuscripts which had been scattered by the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War; and on his return he accompanied Count Nostitz to See also:Switzerland and See also:Italy.: His See also:reason began to give way in 1795, and in 18o' he had to be confined in a lunatic See also:asylum; but by 1803 he had completely recovered. The See also:rest of his See also:life was mainly spent either in Prague or at the See also:country seats of his See also:friends See also:Counts Nostitz and Czernin; but his See also:death took See also:place at See also:Brunn, whither he had gone in 1828 to make investigations in the library. While his fame rests chiefly on his labours in See also:Slavonic See also:philology his botanical studies are not without value in the See also:history of the See also:science. The following is a See also:list of his more important See also:works, Fragmentum Pragense evangeiii S. Marci, vulgo autographi (1778) ; a periodical for Bohemian and Moravian Literature (178o–1787) ; Scriptores rerum Bohemicarum (2 vols., 1783) ; Geschichte der bohm. Sprache and ¢ltern Literatur (1792) ; See also:Die Bildsamkeit der slaw. Sprache (1799) ; a See also:Deutsch-bohm. Worterbuch compiled in collaboration with Leschka-Puchmayer and See also:Hanka (1802-1821) Entwurf eines Pflanzensystems nach Zahlen and Verhaltnissen (1802) ; Glagolitica (1807) ; Lehrgebaude der bohm.

Sprache (1809): Institutions linguae slavicae dialecti veteris (1822) ; Entwurf zu einem allgenteinen Etymologikon der slaw. Sprachen (1813) ; Slowanka zur Kenntniss der slaw. Literatur (1814); and a See also:

critical edition of Jordanes, De See also:rebus Geticis, for See also:Pertz's Monumenta Germaniae historica. See Palacky, J. Dobrowskys Leben and gelehrtes Wirken (1833).

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