!!!Slawistik

Slavonic Studies: A signal of Enlightenment and Romanticism, the 
beginnings of Slavonic studies can be traced back to the intellectual 
and cultural awakening of the Slav peoples under the Habsburg 
Monarchy. In 1876 V. v.  Jagič founded the "Archives of 
Slavonic Philology" ("Archiv fuer slavische 
Philologie", 42 vols., 1876-1929) and further developed the 
linguistic principles of Slavonic studies in terms of philology and 
literary history as established by F. v.  Miklosich. Vienna 
became the centre of Slavonic Studies when a Chair of Slavonic Studies 
was established at the University of Vienna in 1849. The Institute for 
Slavonic Philology and Medieval Studies (Institut fuer Slavische 
Philologie und Altertumskunde; __publication:__ "Wiener Slavistisches 
Jahrbuch" ("Yearbook of Slavonic Studies in Vienna"), 
from 1950) was founded in 1886; a Chair of Slavonic Medieval Studies 
was established in 1893. Whereas the government had already planned to 
offer a Slovenian language course at the University of Graz in 1780, a 
competent teacher was not found until 1811; a university post was 
finally created in 1834; a chair was founded in 1871, a seminary in 
1892, and an Institute for Slavonic Studies in 1895 (__publication:__ 
"Blick nach Osten", 1948-1952; series "Editiones 
monumentorum Slavicorum veteris dialecti", from 1954). In 1897, a 
committee was set up by the Academy of Sciences to study the Balkan 
peninsula (renamed "Southeast Commission" in 1943, called 
"Balkans Commission" since 1950). After the Second World War 
chairs of Slavonic studies were established at the universities of 
Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Salzburg. Today, Slavonic studies in Austria 
deal with Slavic languages and cultures.

!Literature
S. Hafner, Geschichte der oesterreichischen Slawistik, in: 
Beitraege zur Geschichte der Slawistik in nichtslawischen Laendern, 
1985.


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