Konstantin Josef Jireček
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Konstantin Josef Jireček (July 24, 1854 in Vienna—January 10, 1918 in Vienna), son of Josef Jireček, was a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.
He entered the Bulgarian service in 1879, and in 1881 became minister of education at Sofia. In 1884 he became professor of universal history in Czech at Prague university, and in 1893 professor of Slavonic antiquities at Vienna university.
The bulk of Konstantin's writings deal with the history of the southern Slavs and their literature. They include a History of the Bulgarians (Czech and German, 1876), History of Serbs, The Principality of Bulgaria (1891), Travels in Bulgaria (Czech, 1888), etc. He mostly wrote in German.
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- Works by Konstantin Josef Jireček in the Berlin State Library
- Konstantin Josef Jireček in the German National Library catalogue
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
