Adolfo Veber Tkalcevic
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, 11 May 1825 - Zagreb
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, 6 August 1889), Croatian philologist, writer, literary critic and aestheticist.
He received degrees in philosophy
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in Zagreb, theology
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in Budapest
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and Slavistics
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in Vienna
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He has continued the tradition of the Illyrian movement
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, as outlined by Vjekoslav Babukić and Antun Mažuranić, but clearly distanced himself from Gaj
Ljudevit Gaj
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's attempts of relating to Vuk Karadžić. He was important as one of the storytellers which has, in the middle of the 19th century, broken the practice of Turkish novellas and romantic prose introducing the elements of Realism into Croatian literature. His æsthetic views with a classicistic background influenced his philological works and many of his solutions in norming the Croatian standard language
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He was the author of first syntax of Croatian literary language Skladanja ilirskog jezika ("Composing the Illyrian language", Vienna 1859). He authored several school-level textbooks and wrote grammars of Croatian and Latin language for high schools. His Slovnica hrvatska published in 1871 has been used as standard high-school textbook, and as a norm and codification of standard language of the period.
His defence of Illyrian views on literary language was published in Vienac in 1884 under the title Brus jezika ili zagrebačka škola. After Vjekoslav Babukić and Antun Mažuranić, he became the leader of Zagreb philological school.
Works
- Skladnja ilirskoga jezika, Vienna, 1859. (I ed.), 1862. (II ed.), reprint in Zagreb, 2005. (the first work on syntax of Croatian)
- Slovnica za četvrti razred katoličkih glavnih učionah u Carevini austrijanskoj, Vienna, 1862., 1863., 1867., 1868., 1870.
- Slovnica za IV. razred pučkih učionah, 1875.
- Slovnica hrvatska za pučke učione, Vienna, 1876.
- Slovnica hrvatska i pismovnik za pučke učione, Vienna, 1878., 1879.
- Slovnica hèrvatska za srednja učilišta, Zagreb 1871., 1873., 1876.
- Kako bi se imale pisati slovnice za gimnazije, uz nieke protuopazke na opazke gosp. dra. Jovana Turomana , Rad JAZU, Knj. 34(1876)
- Kritika o skladnji Petra Budmana izašloj u Beču g. 1867 : [književna obznana], Rad JAZU, Knj. 4, 1868.
- O glagolju, Rad JAZU, Knj. 22, 1873.
- O naravi hervatske izreke , , Rad JAZU, Knj. 28, 1874.
- O pridavniku, , Rad JAZU, Knj. 14, 1871.
- Pabirci po slovnici hrvatskoj, , Rad JAZU, Knj. 42, 1878.
Works about Tkalčević
- Radoslav KatičićRadoslav KaticicRadoslav Katičić is a Croatian linguist, classical philologist, Indo-Europeanist, Slavist and Indologist, one of the most prominent Croatian scholars in the field of humanities.-Biography:...
, Prva gramatika Adolfa Vebera Tkalčevića, Filologija, Knj. 14, 1986.