Vatroslav Rožić (13 March 1857 – 6 March 1937) was a
Croatian
linguist and
ethnographer.
He was born in
Prodin Dol
Prodin Dol is a settlement in the Jastrebarsko administrative area of Zagreb County, Croatia
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near
Jastrebarsko. In Zagreb he attended classical
gymnasium and studied Slavic languages, history and geography. He was a teacher in
Zagreb and
Zemun, and since 1905 a teacher in a gymnasium in Zagreb. He started out as a dialectologist with an extensive treatise ''Kajkavački dijalekat u Prigorju'' ("Kajkavian dialect of Prigorje", 1894). He wrote a number of grammatical and didactic works, but is mainly known for purist "cleansing" of the Croatian literary language, often exaggerating in his zeal.
His main work is a 1904 book ''Barbarizmi u hrvatskom ili srpskom jeziku'' ("Barbarisms in Croatian or Serbian language"; ²1908, ³1913). Being a
Croatian Vukovian, his ideal language was "a clean Štokavian literary language" without loanwords,
Chakavisms,
Kajkavisms,
neologisms and
archaisms.
Rožić also published ''Prigorje. Narodni život i običaji'' ("Prigorje. People's lives and customs") in ''Zbornik za narodni život i običaje Južnih Slavena'' ("Proceedings for folk life and customs of the South Slavs", 1907–08) - an ethnographic monograph about his homeland, written in the local dialect.
References
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Linguists from Yugoslavia
Linguists from Austria-Hungary
Croatian ethnographers
1857 births
1937 deaths