Ljudevit Gaj
Ljudevit Gaj | |
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Born | Ludwig Gay 8 August 1809 |
Died | 20 April 1872 | (aged 62)
Resting place | Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb, Croatia |
Occupations |
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Known for | Gaj's Latin alphabet |
Movement | Illyrian movement |
Spouse |
Paulina Krizmanić (m. 1842) |
Children | 5 |
Ljudevit Gaj (Croatian: [ʎûdeʋit ɡâːj]; born Ludwig Gay;[1][2] Hungarian: Gáj Lajos; 8 August 1809 – 20 April 1872) was a Croatian linguist, politician, journalist and writer. He was one of the central figures of the pan-Slavist Illyrian movement.
Biography
Origin
He was born in
The Gays were originally of
Ljudevit completed high school in Varaždin, Zagreb and Karlovac, and he studied philosophy in Vienna and Graz (graduated in 1828) and law in Budapest (1829-1831).[3]
Orthography and other work
Gaj started publishing very early; his 36-page booklet on stately manors in his native district, written in his native German, appeared already in 1826 as Die Schlösser bei Krapina.[7][8]
In
The book helped Gaj achieve nationwide fame. In 1834, he succeeded where fifteen years before
In early 1836, the publications' names were changed to Ilirske narodne novine ("The Illyrian People's News") and Danica ilirska ("The Illyrian Morning Star"), respectively. This was because historians at the time hypothesised Illyrians had been Slavic and were the direct forefathers of the present-day South Slavs.
In addition to his intellectual work, Gaj was also a poet. His most popular poem was "Još Hrvatska ni propala" ("Croatia is not in ruin yet"), which was written in 1833.
Death
Gaj died in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, in 1872 at the age of 62.[3] He is buried at Mirogoj Cemetery.[11]
Linguistic legacy
The Latin alphabet used in the Serbo-Croatian language is credited to Gaj's Kratka osnova Hrvatskog pravopisa. Gaj followed the example of
Personal
Gaj married 26-year-old Paulina Krizmanić, niece of an abbott, in 1842 at Marija Bistrica. They had five children: daughter Ljuboslava, and sons Velimir, Svetoslav, Milivoje, and Bogdan.[13]
Legacy
In 2008, a total of 211 streets in Croatia were named after Ljudevit Gaj, making him the fourth most common person eponym of streets in the country.[14]
See also
References
- ^ Hauser, Otto (1915). Die Lyrik des Auslands seit 1800. Leipzig: R. Voigtländer. p. 160.
- ISBN 9781137477866.
- ^ a b c Milorad Živančević (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. pp. 128–129.
- ISBN 9780765638519.
- ^ Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945), Vol. 2, by Balázs Trencsényi and Michal Kopeček
- ^ Horvat, Josip. Politička povijest Hrvatske 1. August Cesarec, Zagreb, p. 49
- Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb. UDC: 94(497.5)-2. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ISBN 9781113014542. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskoga pravopisanja, poleg mudroljubneh, narodneh i prigospodarneh temeljov i zrokov
- ^ Kratka osnova horvatsko-slavenskoga pravopisaňa
- ^ "Groblja - G" [Graves - G]. Gradska Groblja Zagreb. Zagrebački Holding. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-203-21320-9. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
... following Vuk's reform of Cyrillic (see above) in the early nineteenth century, Ljudevit Gaj in the 1830s performed the same operation on Latinica,...
- ^ "Krapinski Vjesnik". Godina VI. Broj 58. Studeni 2009. ISSN 1334-9317
- ISSN 1847-3911. Retrieved 31 December 2014.