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František Ladislav Čelakovský jako filolog, slavista a komparatista
| Title in English | František Ladislav Čelakovský as a Philologist, Slavist and Comparatist |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The subject of this chapter is the philological work of František Ladislav Čelakovský (1799–1852), especially his works created during the time he was a university professor of Slavic studies at Wroclaw and Prague. The most valuable of them is undoubtedly Čtení o srovnávací mluvnici slovanské na univerzitě pražské (Lectures on the Comparative Slavic Grammar at the University of Prague), published posthumously in 1853. The work was published with a positive evaluation by P. J. Šafařík and was critically reflected by M. Hattala. Although the file represents only a fragment of the intended comparative grammar of Slavic languages, at its time, it was the most extensive Czech written treatise in this area. The significance of the work lies primarily in the consistent application of the comparative method and the effort to describe the mutual relations among the Slavic languages. At that time, it was a modern work, especially in terms of methodology. Although Čelakovský is best known as a poet and collector of folklore, he must also be considered one of the important founders of Czech university Slavic studies and an important representative of the early phase of Czech comparative linguistics, whose philological work is worth re-examining and critically evaluating. |
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