Slavistics

Slavistics or Slavic studies is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature and culture. A Slavist or Slavicist is a linguist or philologist who researches Slavistics, a Slavic (AmE) or Slavonic (BrE) scholar. The slavistics emerged in late 18th and early 19th century, simultaneously to the rise of national revival among various nations of Slavic origins and attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, particularly popular among the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scientists to use the term was Josef Dobrovský.

The history of slavistics is generally divided onto three periods. Until 1876 the early slavists concentrated on documentation and printing of monuments of slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. It was also then that the majority of Slavic languages received their first modern dictionaries, grammars and compendia. The second period, ending with World War I, was marked by fast development of Slavic philology and linguistics, most notably in the circle formed around August Schleicher and August Leskien at the University of Leipzig. After World War I slavic scholars focused on dialectology, while the science developed in countries with populations of Slavic origins. After the World War II centres of Slavic studies were also formed in various universities outside of such states.

Areas of interest

* Belarus - Belarusian language - Belarusian literature - Belarusian culture
* Czech Republic - Czech language - Czech literature - Czech culture
* Poland - Polish language - Polish literature - Polish culture
* Russia - Russian language - Russian literature - Russian culture
* Serbia - Serbian language - Serbian literature - Serbian culture
* Slovakia - Slovakian language - Slovakian literature - Slovakian culture
* Ukraine - Ukrainian language - Ukrainian literature - Ukrainian culture

Slavists

Famous Slavists

* Josef Dobrovský (1753 �" 1829) from Bohemia
* Alexander Vostokov (1781 - 1864) from Russia
* Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787 �" 1864) from Serbia
* Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795 �" 1861) from Slovakia
* Franc Miklošič (1813 �" 1891) from Slovenia
* Fyodor Buslaev (1818 - 1898) from Russia
* Anton Janežič (1818 �" 1869) from Slovenia
* Vatroslav Jagić (1838 �" 1923) from Croatia
* Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845 �" 1929) from Poland
* Aleksander Brückner (1856 �" 1939) from Poland
* Josip Tominšek (1872 �" 1954) from Slovenia
* Max Vasmer (1886 - 1962) from Russia
* Josef Matl (1897 �" 1974) from Austria
* Dmitry Likhachev (1906 - 1999) from Russia
* Jaroslav Rudnyckyj (1910 - 1995) from Eastern Galicia
* Dmytro Chyzhevsky (1894 - 1977) from Ukraine
* Thomas Schaub Noonan (1938 �" 2001) from the United States

Contemporary Slavists

* Stefan Brezinski (1932) from Bulgaria
* Radoslav Katičić (1930) from Croatia
* Andrey Zaliznyak (1935) from Russia
* Boris Uspensky (1937) from Russia

Journals

* International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics
* Journal of Slavic Linguistics
* Sarmatian Review
* Scando-Slavica
* Slavic and East European Journal
* Slavic Review

See also

* List of linguists

External links

* Slavic Studies: A Research Guide (Harvard)
* Slavic Studies Guide (NYU)
* Slavic Studies Guide (Duke)
* Slavic & East European Collections (Yale)
* List of Journals in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Slavic Review