Vuk Karadžić
Serbian philologist and linguist
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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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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 vo…
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