Ján Stanislav (12 December 1904,

Liptovský Ján Liptovský Ján (; hu, Szentiván) is a spa village and municipality in Liptovský Mikuláš District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia. History The village was first mentioned in 1263 in historical records. Its traditional name was ' ...

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29 July 1977, Liptovský Mikuláš,

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

) was a Slovak linguist and specialist in

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Life

He was born in

in December 1904. Stanislav studied

and Romance studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava, but also at the universities in

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and

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. He graduated from Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1928. Then he worked as an assistant and a

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at the Slavic Seminar of the university. In 1936, he became a professor of comparative Slavic linguistics and

Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic languages, Slavic literary language. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with Standard language, standardizing the lan ...

. He dealt with linguistic and cultural conditions in the

Great Moravia Great Moravia ( la, Regnum Marahensium; el, Μεγάλη Μοραβία, ''Meghálī Moravía''; cz, Velká Morava ; sk, Veľká Morava ; pl, Wielkie Morawy), or simply Moravia, was the first major state that was predominantly West Slavs, Wes ...

, but also with Slovak historical grammar, the earliest history of Slovak language and Slovaks. The name of Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of

Slovak Academy of Sciences The Slovak Academy of Sciences ( sk, Slovenská akadémia vied, or SAV) is the main scientific and research institution in Slovakia fostering basic and strategic basic research. It was founded in 1942, closed after World War II, and then reestab ...

pays honours to his work.

Selected works

* 1932 Liptovské nárečia he Dialects of Liptov">Liptov.html" ;"title="he Dialects of Liptov">he Dialects of Liptov * 1935 Pôvod východoslovenských nárečí [The Origin of Eastern Slovak Dialects] * 1933 Československá mluvnica A Czechoslovak Grammar * 1948 Slovenský juh v stredoveku [The Slovak South in the Middle Ages] (2 volumes) * 1955-1962 Slovenská historická gramatika [A Historic Slovak Grammar] * 1956-1973 Dejiny slovenského jazyka History of the Slovak Language(5 volumes) * 1978, 1987 Starosloviensky jazyk I. - II. ld Church Slavonic I. - II.

Awards

* 2005 Ľudovít Štúr Order (in memoriam)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stanislav, Ján 1904 births 1977 deaths Comenius University faculty Linguists from Slovakia 20th-century linguists