Review article
https://doi.org/10.21857/m3v76t1p4y
VATROSLAV JAGIĆ AND UKRAINIAN SLAVISTICS
Ljudmila Vasiljeva
orcid.org/0000-0002-2178-8269
Abstract
The article is devoted to Vatroslav Jagić's contacts with Ukrainian Slavists. Their
correspondence, reviews of scientific articles, professional papers are being investigated.
Without the intention of going into a detailed interpretation of individual
studies, we try to show the great authority of V. Jagić in the Ukrainian Slavic environment
and his influence on the development of Ukrainian Slavic studies.
We assume that V. Jagić met Ukrainians for the first time during the lectures of
F. Miklošič's studies at the University of Vienna. Odesa played a certain role in establishing
Jagić's contacts with Ukraine, as evidenced by V. Jagić's contacts with N.
Kondakov, V. Lamanski, Š. Deljanov, M. Smirnov. Contacts with Ukrainians became
even closer after the arrival of Slavists at the third Archaeological Conference in Kyiv
in 1874, where Jagić presented a paper "On old Glagolitic inscriptions on the island
of Velja" and participated in a discussion on the occasion of I. Sreznjevski's paper
"On old Glagolitic manuscripts which are kept in the Kyiv Spiritual Academy". At the
meeting, V. Jagić established contacts with P. Žitecki.
Jagić's contacts with Ukrainian Slavists were influenced by his seminar at the Vienna
Slavistics. A considerable number of Ukrainians were among Jagić's students and
doctoral students. Their connections with Jagić are of great interest for Slavic studies.
V. Jagić had a great influence on the formation of Ukrainian Slavists. Nevertheless, we
came to the conclusion that the Ukrainian Slavists, with their numerous professional
scientific studies and clear civic position, convincingly confirmed V. Jagić's Ukrainian
uniqueness, thereby changing his earlier views and ideas on Ukrainian problems in
a certain way.
Keywords
Vatroslav Jagić; Slavic studies; Ukrainians; scientific contacts; contribution to philological science.
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326015
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Publication date:
31.12.2024.
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