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Slavonic or Old Church Slavic. Compared with research on particular lan-
guage formations and vernaculars, writing on Old Church Slavonic as the
basis from which the Slavic languages evolved brought the common ele-
ments shared by these languages into the foreground. Unsurprisingly, Thun,
unofficially, even requested that scholars nominated for chairs in national
philologies know this language and entrusted the new professor of Slavic
philology in Vienna, Franc Miklošič, with making the final decisions on
this issue.142
While Old Church Slavic was regarded as the antithesis of national
particularism,143 several projects launched in the 1850s in Vienna pointed
toward a rejection of the vernacular nature of Slavic languages. Both the
series Legal and Political Terminology for the Slavic Languages of Austria
(Juridisch-politische Terminologie für die slawischen Sprachen Österreichs)
and two Slavic journals, edited in Vienna and supported by Thun and Helfert,
Slovenské noviny (Slovak news) and Vídeňský denník (Viennese journal),
proposed approaches that softened the differences among languages instead
of encouraging their divergence.144 Similarly, the Ruthenian conservative
journal Věstnyk’ (Вѣстникъ, or Herald) was published in Vienna, although
it remains unclear to what extent it received the support of the Ministry
of Education.145 Thun-Hohenstein also backed two Prague scholars, Jan
Pravoslav Koubek and Jan Erazim Vocel, antagonists of Palacký in the re-
form of the Czech alphabet in 1848; they preferred an alphabet that would
minimize the disparities between the Slavic languages.146
Clearly, the scholars working on these Vienna-based projects were
mainly university professors appointed in and after 1848. They included
Šafárik, who was pulling the strings in language-based subjects and who
took scholars’ academic qualities as much as their linguistic-political align-
ment into account.
While most chairs for Slavic languages and literatures had been
nominated before Thun-Hohenstein was appointed, his own decisions
in these matters were quite controversial. In Prague, when František
Ladislav Čelakovský died in 1852, the ministry found nobody suitable
to take his place. Martin Hattala, an associate professor and the author of
textbooks and grammars of Slovak, won a full professorship only after
Thun-Hohenstein resigned.147 In L’viv, despite countless pleas from the
university, Thun-Hohenstein refrained from raising Jakiv Holovac’kyj’s
salary, leaving it at the 1848 level, which was below the normal salary for
full professors.148 The chairs of Polish language and literature in Galicia,
a traditionally difficult issue, remained unoccupied until 1856, in Cracow
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Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918
A Social History of a Multilingual Space
- Titel
- Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918
- Untertitel
- A Social History of a Multilingual Space
- Autor
- Jan Surman
- Verlag
- Purdue University Press
- Ort
- West Lafayette
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- ISBN
- 978-1-55753-861-1
- Abmessungen
- 16.5 x 25.0 cm
- Seiten
- 474
- Schlagwörter
- History, Austria, Eduction System, Learning
- Kategorien
- Geschichte Vor 1918
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- List of Illustrations vi
- List of Tables vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Note on Language Use, Terminology, and Geography xi
- Abbreviations xiii
- Introduction A Biography of the Academic Space 1
- Chapter 1 Centralizing Science for the Empire 19
- Chapter 2 The Neoabsolutist Search for a Unified Space 49
- Chapterr 3 Living Out Academic Autonomy 89
- Chapter 4 German-Language Universities between Austrian and German Space 139
- Chapter 5 Habsburg Slavs and Their Spaces 175
- Chapter 6 Imperial Space and Its Identities 217
- Chapter 7 Habsburg Legacies 243
- Conclusion Paradoxes of the Central European Academic Space 267
- Appendix 1 Disciplines of Habilitation at Austrian Universities 281
- Appendix 2 Databases of Scholars at Cisleithanian Universities 285
- Notes 287
- Bibliography 383
- Index 445