From the correspondence of Josef Dobrovský in the period 1778–1827
Vol.15,No.2(2012)
Abstract
Keywords:
Josef Dobrovský; correspondence; slavists; Poland; Slovakia
Pages:
41–53
Considering the material progress of the postal services in the period of the Enlightenment, the correspondence between scholars of that period has substantially increased. In the extensive co-rrespondence of Josef Dobrovský, the founder of Slavonic studies, an important part is formed by mutual correspondence of Dobrovský with his predecessor V. F. Durych, Polish philologists and historians J. S. Bandtke and S. B. Linde, and a Slovak philologist and historian J. Ribay. In Dobrovský's letters to the above-mentioned persons, we can find valuable information about his study trip to Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Poland accomplished in the period 1794–1795, which complements his printed report on this study trip called Literarische Nachrichten von einer [...] Reise nach Schweden und Rusland issued in 1796.
Josef Dobrovský; correspondence; slavists; Poland; Slovakia
41–53