Vuk Karadžić

Serbian philologist and linguist

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Lived 1787–1864, aged 77Turkey

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Turkey rank#100
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Era
1787–1864
Aged 77

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Updated 2026-05-29

Cleaned up the Serbian language and basically invented modern Serbian scholarship. Karadžić collected folk tales, made the first reformed dictionary, and translated the New Testament—all while becoming the guy who actually defined how Serbs speak and write.

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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić 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…

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