Platon Atanacković (

Sombor Sombor ( sr-Cyrl, Сомбор, ; ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the West Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city has a total population of 41,814 (), while its adminis ...

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, 10 July 1788 –

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, Habsburg Monarchy, 21 April 1867) was a writer,

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

, patron of Serb culture, bishop of the Eparchy of Bačka and president of ''

Matica srpska The Matica srpska ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Матица српска, Matica srpska, ) is the oldest Serbian language independent, non-profit, non-governmental and cultural-scientific Serbian national institution. It was founded on June 1, 1826, in Pest, ...

''. Born in the then

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-occupied Vojvodina, he became the bishop of Bačka and promoted education among his people in the diaspora and the home country. With help of the German translation of

Frédéric Eichhoff Frédéric Gustave Eichhoff (17 August 1799, in Le Havre – 10 May 1875, in Paris) was a French linguist and philologist. He studied at Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1826 with a thesis on Hesiod. In 1837–38, he worked as a substitute for ...

's works, he demonstrated the cognition of

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and

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(''Srodstvo slavenoserbskog jezika sa sanskritam'' or Affinity of Slavo-Serbian languages and Sanskrit, ''Letopis Matice srpske'', 1843). Platon's secular name was

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. He was involved in literature, politics and humanitarian work. He taught for 70 years as a professor in

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, Hungary. In 1829, he became a monk in

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, after his wife died. Soon, he was elevated to the ecclesiastical rank of

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, and then

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. He became in 1839 bishop of the

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. Back then, he got transferred to the state government in the Eparchy of Bačka. He did much for education and the promotion of culture in the nation. He helped financially to establish the Serbian Law Academy in

, and he established a foundation in

for the education of poor students, and assisted the

Serbian National Theatre The Serbian National Theatre ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српско народно позориште, Srpsko narodno pozorište), located in Novi Sad, is one of the major theatres of Serbia. History The Serbian National Theatre was founded in 1861 durin ...

Works

During his lifetime he wrote more than 40 literary and scholastic works, including a few translations from German: * ''Bukvar'' (Serbian Primer) * ''Prinos rodoljubivih mislej na žertvenik narodnoga napretka'', * ''Dijetalne besede'', * ''Povjest rezidencije episkopa budimskago”, * ''Apostoli i Evanđelje u prazničani i nedjeljni dana preko cijele godine'', * ''Pedagogika'', * ''Metodika'', * ''Srodstvo slavenoserbskog jezika sa sanskritam'' * ''Starozavetni Proroci svi sedamnajst,'' translated from German by Platon Atanackovic, Bishop of Backa, Novi Sad, 1861 * ''Radost' u isceleiu negovoga kralevskoga erchercoga Iosifa, ungarie palatine,'' 1864 * ''Tobias, Judith, Esther, Job,'' translated from German by Platon Atanackovic, Bishop of Buda, Novi Sad, 1858 * ''Socinenija Solomonova i Sirachova,'' translated from German ''Die Werke Solomons und Sirachs'' by Platon Atanackovic, Bishop of Backa, Vienna, 1857 * ''Slovce Presvjascennejseg Gospodina Platona Atanackovica, Episkop Budimskog,'' Novi Sad, 1839

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Atanackovic, Platon 1788 births 1867 deaths Writers from Sombor 19th-century Serbian writers 19th-century Serbian male writers Writers from Novi Sad Linguists from Serbia 19th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops Bishops of Bačka Serbian Orthodox Church in Hungary 19th-century linguists