Josip Hamm (3 December 1905 – 23 November 1986) was a Croatian

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best known for his research on Old Church Slavonic language and literature.

Biography

Hamm was born in the village of Gat near Belišće and

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. In 1924 he finished the classical gymnasium in Osijek, and in 1929 he graduated in Slavic and Germanic studies at the

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. He worked as a lecturer at the gymnasiums in Pristina, Karlovac and Zagreb. In 1931 he became a part-time

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for Polish at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. In 1934 he received his Ph.D. with the thesis ''Matija Petar Katančić, njegova djela i njegov dijalekt'' (' Matija Petar Katančić, his works and dialect'). In 1946 he became permanent lector for Polish. In 1948 he received a position of ''docent'' for Slavic philology, with special care for Old Church Slavonic. He became an associate professor in 1954, and a tenured professor in 1958. Josip Hamm Mirogoj srpanj 2008

In 1960, he accepted the position of a regular professor of Slavic philology at the Department for Slavic studies of the University of Vienna, as well as the position of the head of the Institute for Slavic philology in Vienna. He also served as the head of the Linguistic department of Balkan commission (founded by Vatroslav Jagić in 1897) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was a regular member of the Austrian as well as the

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. In 1952, together with Svetozar Rittig and Vjekoslav Štefanić, he founded the Old Church Slavonic Institute in Zagreb, under whose patronage the journal '' Slovo'' was published. Hamm died in

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at the age of 81, and was buried in Zagreb.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamm, Josip 1905 births 1985 deaths People from Belišće People from the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia Linguists from Croatia Slavists Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Academic staff of the University of Vienna Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery 20th-century linguists

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