Jernej Kopitar
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Jernej Kopitar (born 21 August 1780 in Repnje, died 11 August 1844 in Vienna) was a Slovenian linguist.
After graduating from a gymnasium in Ljubljana, he became a home teacher in Sigmund Zois' house. In 1808 he moved to Vienna, where he studied law and worked on Slavic languages. He found a job in Vienna Court Library, where he worked as a librarian and a censor for Slavic and Greek books.
In 1808 he published the first Slovenian grammar, Grammatik der slavischen Sprache in Krain, Karnten und Steyemark. In his work, Glagolita Clozianus (1836), he published Brižinski spomeniki, an oldest known work in Slovenian and the first Slavic work in Latin alphabet, with translation and annotation.
He was the instrumental aid to Vuk Stefanović Karadžić in forming the Serbian literary language, based on common language used.
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