Slavist - Definition and Overview

Slavistics is the study of Slavic languages, Slavic literature and Slavic culture. Slavist or Slavicist is a linguist or philologist who researches the Slavistics. An equivalent British English form is Slavonic and American English Slavic (scholar).

NB: not to be confused with Pan-Slavists.

Slavists

Famous Slavists

• Vatroslav Jagić (1838–1923) from Croatia
• Anton Janežič (1818–1869) from Slovenia
• Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787–1864) from Serbia
• Josef Matl (1897–1974) from Austria
• Franc Miklošič (1813–1891) from Slovenia
• Josip Tominšek (1872–1954) from Slovenia
• Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861) from Slovakia

Contemporary Slavists

• Radoslav Katičić (1930) from Croatia

See also

• List of linguists