Ján Stanislav

Ján Stanislav (* 12 December 1904, Liptovský Ján, Austria-Hungary † 29 July 1977, Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak Linguist and Slavist.

Life

He was born in Liptovský svätý Ján on December 1904. Stanislav studied Slavic studies and Romance studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava, but also at the universities in Paris, Kraków and Ljubjana. He graduated from Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1928. Then he worked as an assistant and a docent at the Slavic Seminar of the university. In 1936, he became a professor of comparative Slavic linguistics and Old Church Slavonic. He dealt with linguistic and cultural conditions in the Great Moravia, but also with Slovak historical grammar, the earliest history of Slovak language and Slovaks.[1] The name of Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of Slovak Academy of Sciences pays honours to his work.[2]

Selected works

Awards

References

  1. "University Professor PhDr. Ján Stanislav, DrSc. (1904 – 1977), Linguist and Slavist". Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of Slovak Academy of Sciences. Slovak Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  2. "About the Institute". Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of Slovak Academy of Sciences. Slovak Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 November 2016.


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