Vuk Stefanović Karadžić: Quick Facts


Facts

Born November 6, 1787 • Ottoman Empire
Died February 6, 1864 (aged 76) • Vienna • Austria
Subjects Of Study Serbian literature • folk literature • Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language • Shtokavian • orthography

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William Salesbury
Welsh lexicographer
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary
William Tyndale
William Tyndale
English scholar
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Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
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S.E.K. Mqhayi
South African poet and novelist
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James Moffatt
British biblical scholar
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Christiern Pedersen
Danish humanist
Abauzit, detail of an oil painting by Robert Gardelle, 1741; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Firmin Abauzit
French theologian
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Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
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Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy
French theologian
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Vasko Popa
Serbian poet
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Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
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Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
Ulfilas teaching Christianity to the Goths, early 20th-century illustration.
Ulfilas
bishop of the Goths
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Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
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Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
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Alexandre de Rhodes
French missionary
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St. Isaac the Great
Armenian religious leader