Matija Murko

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Matija Murko

Matija Murko, also known as Mathias Murko (10 February 1861 – 11 February 1952), was a Slovenian scholar, known mostly for his work on oral epic traditions in Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian.

Life

Murko was born in the small village of

University of Leipzig. From 1920 to 1931, he taught at Charles University in Prague
, where he settled and lived until his death in 1952. At the Charles University he founded the Slavic Institute (Slovanský ústav), which he led until 1941.

Murko had an intense social life and was a personal friend of figures as

honoris causa from Charles University in Prague in 1909 and from the University of Ljubljana
in 1951.

Murko's grave in Vokovice, Prague

Work and influence

Murko was trained in the

Sebastijan Krelj
.

Since Murko published mostly in German and French, his work was little known to scholars unfamiliar with these languages, but it had an important influence on Milman Parry, who was studying for his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris under Antoine Meillet, at the time when Murko's major work appeared in French.

His work was praised by the renowned Austrian critic Hermann Bahr, who regarded it as one of the finest examples of style in contemporary scientific prose.[2] Murko also influenced the development of modern Slovenian literary history, especially Fran Ilešič, Ivan Prijatelj, and France Kidrič.

Sources

  • Slovenska matica
    , 1894).
  • Deutsche Einflüsse auf die Anfänge der Slavischen Romantik ("German Influences on Slavic Romanticism", Graz, 1897).
  • Die südslavischen Literaturen: die Kultur der Gegenwart ("The South Slavic Literatures: the Culture of the Present", Stuttgart, 1908).
  • Geschichte der ältern slawischen Literaturen ("History of Ancient Slavic Literatures", Leipzig, 1908).
  • Die Bedeutung der Reformation und Gegenreformation für das geistlige Leben der Südslaven ("The Importance of the
    Counter-reformation in the Spiritual History of South Slavs", Prague: Slavia, 1925; Heidelberg
    , 1926).
  • La poésie populaire épique en Yougoslavie au début du XXe siècle ("The Folk Epic Poetry in Yugoslavia at the Beginning of the 20th Century", Paris: Champion, 1929)
  • Tragom srpskohrvatske epike ("Tracing the Serbo-Croatian Epic Literature", Zagreb, 1951).
  • Izbrano delo ("Selected Works", edited by Anton Slodnjak, Ljubljana, 1962).

References

  1. ^ Taufbuch. Destrnik. 1859–1872. p. 52. Retrieved 8 July 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ a b Slovenska kronika XIX. stoletja (1861–1899) (Ljubljana: Nova revija, 2005), p. 50

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