Franc Miklošič

Background

Franc Miklošič was born on November 20, 1813, in the small village of Radomerščak near the Lower Styrian town of Ljutomer, then part of the Austrian Empire.

Education

Miklošič graduated at the university at Gratz as a doctor of philosophy, and was for a time professor of philosophy there. In 1838 he went to Vienna, where he took the degree of doctor of law.

Career

He devoted himself, however, to the study of Slavonic languages, abandoned the law, and obtained a post in the imperial library, where he remained from 1844 to 1862. In the former year he published a noteworthy review of Bopp's Comparative Grammar, and this began a long series of works of immense erudition which completely revolutionized the study of Slavonic languages. In 1849 Miklošič was appointed to the newly created chair of Slavonic philology at the university of Vienna, and he occupied it until 1886. He became a member of the Academy of Vienna, which appointed him secretary of its historical and philosophical section, a member of the council of public instruction and of the upper house, and correspondent of the French Academy of Inscription. His numerous writings deal not only with the Slav languages, but with Rumanian, Albanian, Greek, and the language of the gypsies.

Franc Miklošič died on March 7, 1891.

Achievements

• Franc Miklošič was a prominent philosopher and linguist, who was the founder of the comparative-historical study of the grammar of the Slavic languages.
  
  Franc Miklošič was the recipient of the Volney Prize (1857), the Order of Merit and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.
  
  In 1851, Miklošič became a member of the Academy of Vienna from 1851.
  
  Franc Miklošič was also a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Works

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  • Monumenta serbica spectantia historiam Serbiae, Bosnae, Ragusii ed: Fr (Latin Edition)

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Membership

Franc Miklošič was a member of the Academy of Vienna from 1851.

Franc Miklošič was a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Connections

Franc Miklošič was married to Cäcilia von Eichenfeld, they had two sons.

Father:

Jurij Miklošič

Mother:

Marija Miklošič (Zobovič)

Wife:

Cäcilia Miklošič (von Eichenfeld)

Son:

Moritz Miklošič

Son:

Franz Miklošič