Rajko Nahtigal (April 14, 1877 – March 29, 1958) was a Slovenian scholar of

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languages and literature.

Biography

Nahtigall was born in

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and baptized ''Raimund August Nachtigall''. Nahtigal's research interests spanned

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language and literature, the history of

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in general,

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literature, and the

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itself. He is recognized for his work on the Old Church Slavonic Glagolitic Sinai Prayer Book and ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign'', an Old Russian epic. Nahtigal authored numerous scholarly publications and was awarded the Prešeren Prize in 1953.

References

1877 births People from Novo Mesto University of Vienna alumni Members of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana 1958 deaths {{Linguist-stub