Vatroslav Rožić

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Vatroslav Rožić (March 13, 1857 – March 6, 1937) was a Croatian linguist and ethnographer.^[1]

He was born in Prodin Dol near Jastrebarsko. In Zagreb he attended classical gymnasium and studied Slavic languages, history and geography. He was a teacher in Zagreb and Zemun, and since 1905 a teacher in a gymnasium in Zagreb. He started out as a dialectologist with an extensive treatise Kajkavački dijalekat u Prigorju ("Kajkavian dialect of Prigorje", 1894). He wrote a number of grammatical and didactic works, but is mainly known for purist "cleansing" of the Croatian literary language, often exaggerating in his zeal.^[1]

His main work is a 1904 book Barbarizmi u hrvatskom ili srpskom jeziku ("Barbarisms in Croatian or Serbian language"; ²1908, ³1913). Being a Croatian Vukovian, his ideal language was "a clean Štokavian literary language" without loanwords, Chakavisms, Kajkavisms, neologisms and archaisms.^[1]

According to Osnovi by A. Radić, Rožić published Prigorje. Narodni život i običaji ("Prigorje. People's lives and customs") in Zbornik za narodni život i običaje Južnih Slavena ("Proceedings for folk life and customs of the South Slavs", 1907–08) - a well-written ethnographic monograph about his homeland, written in the local dialect.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Rožić, Vatroslav", Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian), Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 1999–2009, retrieved January 19, 2014 Check date values in: |date= (help)

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Name	Rožić, Vatroslav
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Short description	Croatian linguist
Date of birth	March 13, 1857
Place of birth
Date of death	March 6, 1937
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