Jire%C4%8Dek, Josef Konstantin#
Jireček, Josef Konstantin, b. Vienna, July 24, 1854, d. Vienna, Jan. 10, 1918, historian (study of Slavic languages and literature). 1881/82 Minister of Education in Bulgaria (organisation of the Bulgarian educational system), afterwards professor at the University of Prague, from 1893 at the University of Vienna, where he established the Department for Eastern European History. Was one of the supranational thinkers of the Habsburg monarchy.
Works#
Das Fuerstentum Bulgarien, 1891; Die Romanen in den Staedten Dalmatiens waehrend des MA, 3 parts, 1901-1904; Geschichte der Serben, 2 vols., 1911-1918.Literature#
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