Đuro Daničić
Serbian linguist (1825–1882)
Đuro Daničić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Даничић, pronounced [dʑǔːro dǎnit͡ʃit͡ɕ]; 4 April 1825 – 17 November 1882), born Đorđe Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Поповић) and also known as Đura Daničić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђура Даничић), was a Serbian philologist, translator, linguistic historian and lexicographer. He made significant contributions towards the establishment of the modern standard Serbo-Croatian language on the basis of the works of Vuk Karadžić.
Biography
He was born in Novi Sad, in the family of Orthodox priest Jovan Popović. He attended schools in Novi Sad and Bratislava, and studied law at the University of Vienna. He published his first papers under the name Đuro Daničić in 1845, after the heroic Senj Uskok from a folk poem, and a name that he continued to use throughout the rest of his life. Under the influence of Vuk Karadžić and Franz Miklosich he started studying Slavic philology, to which he subsequently devoted his entire career. In 1856, he became the librarian of the People's Library in Belgrade and secretary of the Society of Serbian Literacy, and, in 1859, professor of the Belgrade Velika škola. In 1866 he was invited to Zagreb to serve as a secretary general of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU). He served as a secretary general on two occasions between 1866-1873 and 1877-1882. From 1873 he taught as a professor at Belgrade's Velika škola, and in 1877 he returned to Zagreb where he played a key role in preparing the Yugoslav Academy's Dictionary of Croatian or Serbian Language.
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