Jagić Ignatius (Vatroslav)

Jagić Ignatius (Vatroslav) (1838‒1923) – philologist, specialist in Slavic studies, linguist, paleographer, and archeographer.

He studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Wien, taught at the Zagreb Gymnasium. In 1866, he was elected for Members of the South-Slavic Academy of Sciences and Arts. Academician of the St. Petersburg Ac. of Sc. in the Department of Russian Language and Literature (1869). He made lectures in comparative grammar of Indo-European languages and Sanskrit at the Novorossiisk University (1872-1874), in Slavic philology at the Berlin University (1874-1880), in Church Slavic and Russian languages at the St. Petersburg University (1880-1886) – also he made lectures ate the Higher Female Courses and at the Archeological Institute. Professor of the University of Wien (1886-1908).

One of the greatest experts in the field of Slavic linguistics of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Compositions

Codex Marianus with Notes and Supplements. A Monument of Glagolic Writings. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. Typography, 1883. (in Rus.)
Lectures in Russian Language. St. Petersburg, Krestianov Typography, 1885. (in Rus.)
Relation of Slavic Dialects to Church Slavic Language. Lecture by Prof I. V. Jagiи, Made in 1884-1885 at the St. Petersburg University. According Students’ Notes. St. Petersburg, 1885. (in Rus.)
Menaion for September, October ad November. In Church Slavic Translation on the Base of Russian Manuscripts of 1095-1097. St. Petersburg, Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Ac. of Sc., 1886. (in Rus.)
An Issue of Stt Cyril and Methodius in Slavic Philology. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. Typography, 1885. (in Rus.)
Considerations on South-Slavic and Russian Antiquities and Church Slavic Language. St. Petersburg, 1895. (in Rus.)
Critical Notes on the Slavic Translation of Two Apocryphal Narrations. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. Typography, 1898. (in Rus.)
A. S. Pushkin in South-Slavic Literatures. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. Typography, 1901. (in Rus.)
The Encyclopedia of Slavic Philology. Ed. by I. V. Jagiи. Iss. 1-3. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. Typography, 1910. (in Rus.)
The History of Slavic Philology. St. Petersburg, Ac. of Sc. Typography, 1910. (in Rus.)

About him

Speransky M. N. I. V. Jagić as Historian of Slavic Philology. St. Petersburg, 1910. (in Rus.)
Kuz’min A. P. I. V. Jagić on Russian-Slavic Research Contacts of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century // Izvestiya of the Ac. of. Sc. of the U.S.S.R. Seria of Literature and Language, vol. XXVII, iss. 4. Moscow, 1968. (in Rus.)

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