"... From India, the ancient mother of the Slavs..." : in search of the Slavic origins in the works of Ján Kollár
Vol.18,No.1(2015)
Abstract
Keywords:
Slavic homeland; India; Ján Kollár; Pavol Jozef Šafárik; romantic etymology
Pages:
73–82
The works of Ján Kollár played an important role in its time. His poetry is held in high esteem but his scholarly work is ignored. One of his scholarly controversial issues which is absent from the Kollár research is Kollár's theory of the origins of the Slavs from India. In Slávy dcéra (The Daughter of Sláva) he mentions India as the homeland of the Slavs. He propounded this explanation also in the now almost forgotten treatise Sláwa Bohyně a původ gména Slawůw čili Slawjanův (The Glory of the Goddess and the Origin of the Name of the Slavs or Slavyans, 1839). The paper aims at exploring this treatise, showing its place in the contemporary discourse on the origins of the Slavs as well as its relevance for the understanding of Slávy dcéra.
Slavic homeland; India; Ján Kollár; Pavol Jozef Šafárik; romantic etymology
73–82