# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vuk-karadzic
# Generated: 2026-09-01T15:05:56.331Z

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name: "Vuk Karadžić"
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description: "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.\""
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birthDate: "1787-10-26"
deathDate: "1864-01-26"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.