Ján Stanislav (12 December 1904,

Liptovský Ján Liptovský Ján (; ) 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 ''Sv. Ján'', " ...

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– † 29 July 1977,

Liptovský Mikuláš Liptovský Mikuláš (; until 1952 ''Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš'', ; ) is a town in northern Slovakia, on the Váh River, about from Bratislava. It lies in the Liptov region, in Podtatranská kotlina, Liptov Basin near the Low Tatra and Tat ...

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) was a Slovak linguist and specialist in

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Life

He was born in

in December 1904. Stanislav studied

and

Romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology (; ; ; ; ; ; ) is an academic discipline that covers the study of the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak Romance languages. Romance studies departments usually include the study of Spa ...

at the Comenius University in Bratislava, but also at the universities in Paris,

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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 ( ) is the first Slavic languages, Slavic literary language and the oldest extant written Slavonic language attested in literary sources. It belongs to the South Slavic languages, South Slavic subgroup of the ...

. He dealt with linguistic and cultural conditions in the

Great Moravia Great Moravia (; , ''Meghálī Moravía''; ; ; , ), or simply Moravia, was the first major state that was predominantly West Slavic to emerge in the area of Central Europe, possibly including territories which are today part of the Czech Repub ...

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

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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

Order of Ľudovít Štúr The Order of Ľudovít Štúr () is the third highest Slovak state decoration (after the Order of the White Double Cross and the Orders, decorations, and medals of Slovakia#Andrej Hlinka Order, Order of Andrej Hlinka) conferred by the President ...

(in memoriam)

References

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