2025Notable Serbs - Sheetlets CTO

200th anniversary of the birth of Đura Daničić
Đura Daničić (April 6, 1825 – November 17, 1882), a Serbian philologist, member of the Society of Serbian Letters and the Serbian Learned Society, marked Serbian linguistics in the second half of the 19th century. An agile supporter of Vuk Karadžić›s reform, with his commitment and work he made an immeasurable contribution to the constitution of the Serbian literary language, describing and prescribing its morphological, syntactic and accentual system. He published the Little Serbian Grammar and Forms of the Serbian Language. He collaborated with Vuk on the second edition of the Serbian Dictionary, in which, owing to him, the marking of the four-accentual system was consistently implemented, and he also wrote several studies on Serbian accents. In the work Serbian Syntax, Daničić thoroughly described the case system of the Serbian language. His translations, the most famous of which is the translation of the Old Testament, are also of great importance for the codification of the Vuk type of literary language.