- Anton Janežič
Anton Janežič, also known in German as Anton Janeschitz (
December 19 ,1828 -September 18 ,1869 ) was a Carinthian Slovene linguist,philologist ,author ,editor , literary historian and critic.Life
Janežič was born in a peasant family in the village of Leše ( _de. Lessah) near
Št. Jakob v Rožu ( _de. St. Jakob im Rosental) in Carinthia.He attended the grammar school inKlagenfurt . In 1848, when theSlovene language was introduced in school, Janežič was employed as professor of Slovene at the Klagenfurtlyceum . In 1851 he begun to study linguistics and Slavic philology at theUniversity of Vienna under the supervision ofFranc Miklošič . In 1854 he returned to Klagenfurt, where he continued to teach Slovene, German andhistory at the lyceum until 1866 when he resigned because of illness. He died three years later in Klagenfurt, where he was also buried. In the 1870s, he was reburied in his local parish of Št. Jakob.Work
Janežič entered the public life after the
Spring of Nations , when he became a close collaborator of the fellow Carinthian countrymanMatija Majar , the author of the program ofUnited Slovenia . In 1851 he started compiling a German-Slovene dictionary, based on the work ofOžbalt Gutsman ,Marko Pohlin ,Matija Ahacel ,Jernej Kopitar andUrban Jarnik , completing it in 1854 under the advice ofFranc Miklošič andFranc Serafin Metelko . The same year, he also published agrammar of Slovene language, which was used in Slovene language schools until the 1920s.In 1850, Janežič launched the literary magazine "Slovenska bčela" ("The Slovene Bee"), which published the works of important contemporary Slovene authors, such as
Josipina Turnograjska ,Miroslav Vilhar ,Fran Levstik ,Janez Trdina andAndrej Einspieler . In 1858, the magazine merged with the journal "Vaje" edited bySimon Jenko ,Valentin Zarnik andJanez Mencinger , to form the magazine "Slovenski glasnik" ("The Slovene Voice"), which atracted the collaboration of many important authors, includingFran Erjavec andJosip Jurčič . Between 1861 and 1868 the journal also published the book collection "Cvetje iz domačih in tujih logov" ("Flowers from Home and Abroad") which issued several important books of Slovene authors and translation of classical authors such asSophocles ,Plato ,Virgil ,Andersen ,Lermontov and others. After retiring in 1866, he left the editor post toJosip Stritar .In 1851, Janežič founded the
Hermagoras Society , the oldest Slovene publishing house, together withAndrej Einspieler andAnton Martin Slomšek . Additionally, he collaborated withMatija Ahacel andAnton Martin Slomšek in preserving the folk traditions of Slovenes in Carinthia and inLower Styria . He was also the first to give a coplete translation of theFreising Manuscripts , the oldest document in the Slovene language are the first Roman-script record of any Slavic language, into modern Slovene.Sources
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Janko Kos , "Slovenska književnost" (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1982), 121.External links
Deutsch-slovenisches Hand-wörterbuch written by Anton Janežič [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=R3nDCdlbt_MC&dq=%22Anton+Jane%C5%BEi%C4%8D%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=feSQ6PnQaX&sig=G7hX-tUiP0yEXh8F4N6leLVGvGc#PPP2,M1]
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