# Vuk Karadžić

> He rebuilt the Serbian language from the ground up. Vuk Karadžić gave it a new alphabet, a new dictionary, and a new literary foundation drawn from the folktales he collected from villages—work that made him, in the Britannica's words, "the father of Serbian folk-literature scholarship."

*Serbian philologist and linguist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/vuk-karadzic

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Turkey
- **Born:** 1787-10-26
- **Died:** 1864-01-26
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born 6 November 1787, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić became a philologist, anthropologist, and linguist who reformed modern Serbian more thoroughly than perhaps any single figure has reshaped a language. He founded multiple Serbian academic disciplines and contributed significantly to historiography. He collected and preserved folktales that became the backbone of a national literature, compiled the first Serbian dictionary in his reformed language, and translated the New Testament into the new spelling and form. His scholarship traveled: Jacob Grimm and Goethe knew his name, and historian Leopold von Ranke relied on Karadžić as the primary source for "The Serbian Revolution," published in 1829. He died 7 February 1864, having given a people the tools to write themselves.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 58.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 9.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #History, #Literature, #Turkey, #Middle East, #19th Century

## Sources
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- [Вук Караджыч](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8B%D1%87)
- [Вук Стэфанавіч Караджыч](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%83%D0%BA_%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8B%D1%87)
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- [Vuk Karadžić](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87)
- [Vuk Stefanović Karadžić](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Stefanovi%C4%87_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87)
- [Vuk Stefanović Karadžić](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_Stefanovi%C4%87_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87)
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