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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian linguist, historian, translator, and writer born in Tršić in 1787. He was a member of the Serbs ethnic group and held citizenship in the Ottoman Empire and the Principality of Serbia. His professional work focused on linguistics, folkloristics, and ethnography. He spoke and wrote in German and Serbian. He was influenced by Sava Mrkalj.
Karadžić served as the Mayor of Belgrade and was employed by the University of Belgrade. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie, and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. He was affiliated with the Serbian Orthodox Church. He had a child named Mina Karadžić.
He died in Vienna in 1864 and was buried at St. Michael's Cathedral, St. Marx Cemetery. He wore a pegleg. His notable works include *DIRER*, *Prepiska VII (1843-1847) 2 Deo*, *Sabrana Dela Vuka Stefanovica Karadzica*, and *Crven Ban*. He is described by sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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- DIRER
- Vuk Karadzic, Prepiska VII (1843-1847) 2 Deo
- Sabrana Dela Vuka Stefanovica Karadzica
- Crven Ban
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Vuk
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Principality of Serbia
- Place of birth
- Tršić
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Occupation
- ethnographer
- Position held
- Mayor of Belgrade
- Educated at
- Gymnasium of Karlovci
- Employer
- University of Belgrade
- Languages spoken
- Serbian
- Religion
- Serbian Orthodox Church
- Field of work
- folkloristics
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- VukKaradzic.jpg
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- Sava Mrkalj
- ethnic group
- Serbs
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- Vuk Karadžić
- date of birth
- 1787-10-26
- date of death
- 1864-02-07
- place of burial
- St. Marx Cemetery
- topic's main category
- Category:Vuk Karadžić
- name in native language
- Вук Стефановић Караџић
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- pegleg
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Encyclopedic overview
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Стефановић Караџић, pronounced [vûːk stefǎːnovitɕ kâradʒitɕ]; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS) – 7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the modern Serbian language. Vuk Karadžić was a versatile scholar and the founder of several Serbian academic disciplines, with a significant contribution to historiography. For his collection and preservation of Serbian folktales, Encyclopædia Britannica labelled Karadžić "the father of Serbian folk-literature scholarship." He was also the author of the first Serbian dictionary in the new reformed language. In addition, he translated the New Testament into the reformed form of the Serbian spelling and language.
He was well known abroad and familiar to Jacob Grimm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and historian Leopold von Ranke. Karadžić was the primary source for Ranke's Die serbische Revolution ("The Serbian Revolution"), written in 1829.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vuk Karadžić” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.