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Matija Murko also known as
Mathias Murko (
February 10 1861 -
February 11 1952) was a
Slovene scholar, known mostly for his work on oral epic traditions in the
Serbo-Croatian language (
Serbian,
Bosnian,
Croatian).
Life
Murko was born in the small village of
Drstelja near
Ptuj,
Lower Styria, in what was then the
Austrian Empire and is now in
Slovenia. He frequented high school in Ptuj and
Maribor. He studied Slavic and Germanic philology at the
University of Vienna, where he was a pupil of
Franc Miklošič. After obtaining his
PhD in
Vienna in
1886, he went to postdoctoral studies to
Moscow. From
1897 to
1902, he taught Slavic philology at the University of Vienna, from 1902 to
1917 at the
University of Graz, and from 1917 to
1920 at the
University of Leipzig. From 1920 to
1931, he taught at the
Charles University in
Prague, where he settled and lived until his death in 1952.
Murko had a intense social life and was a personal fiend of figures as
Ivan Hribar,
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and
Karel Kramář. During his lifetime, he became a member of numerous
academies of sciences around
Europe, especially in Slavic countries: the
Yugoslav, the
Serbian, the
Czech, the
Soviet, the
Bulgarian, the
Polish and the
Slovenian. He conferred a doctorate
honoris causa by the Charles University of Prague in 1909 and by the
University of Ljubljana in
1951.
Work and influence
Murko was trained in the
positivistic style of
philology. He published several scientific works in the field of
ethnology,
cultural and
literary history. Influenced by the historian
Karl Lamprecht, Murko published the book
Gescichte der aeltern slawischen Literaturen ("History of Ancient Slavic Literatures",
Leipzig,
1908), in which he presented the older Slavic literatures as a reflection of their colelctive cultural and social life of those people. He also wrote on the history of
Slovenian literature, especially on
Prešeren and
Protestant authors from the
16th century, such as
Primož Trubar,
Jurij Dalmatin and
Sebastijan Krelj.
Since Murko published mostly in
German and
French, his work was little known to scholars unfamiliar with these languages, but it had an important influence on
Milman Parry, who was studying for his doctorate at the
Sorbonne in
Paris under
Antoine Meillet, at the time when Murko's major work appeared in French.
His work was praised by the renowned
Austrian critic
Hermann Bahr, who regarded it as one of the finest examples of style in contemporary scientific prose. Murko also influenced the development of modern Slovenian literary history, especially
Fran Ilešič,
Ivan Prijatelj and
France Kidrič.
Essential bibliography
- Jan Kollár (Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 1894).
- Deutsche Einfluesse auf die Anfaenge der Slavischen Romantik ("German Influences on Slavic Romanticism", Graz, 1897).
- Die suedslavischen Literaturen: die Kultur der Gegenwart ("The South Slavic Literatures: the Culture of the Present", Stuttgart, 1908).
- Gescichte der aeltern slawischen Literaturen ("History of Ancient Slavic Literatures", Leipzig, 1908).
- Die Bedeutung der Reformation und Gegenreformation fuer das geistlige Leben der Suedslaven ("The Importance of the Protestant Reformation and Counter-reformation in the Spiritual History of South Slavs", Prague: Slavia, 1925; Heidelberg, 1926).
- La poésie populaire épique en Yougoslavie au début XXe siècle ("The Folk Epic Poetry in Yugoslavia at the Beginning of the 20th Century", Paris: Champion, 1929)
- Tragom srpskohrvatske epike ("Tracing the Serbo-Croatian Epic Literature", Zagreb, 1951).
- Izbrano delo ("Selected Works", edited by Anton Slodnjak, Ljubljana, 1962).
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