Meletius Smotrytsky
Archbishop and writer from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth · Religious Figures · Lived 1577 to 1633 · aged 56
Meletius Smotrytsky, Archbishop of Polotsk, was a writer, a religious and pedagogical activist of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a Ruthenian linguist whose works influenced the development of the Eastern Slavic languages.
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His book Slavonic Grammar with Correct Syntax (1619) systematized the study of Church Slavonic. It became the standard grammar book in Russia until the end of the 18th century.
