Slavic studies
Slavic studies, Slavonic studies or Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist researching Slavistics, a Slavic or Slavonic scholar. Increasingly historians and other humanists and social scientists who study Slavic area cultures and societies have been included in this rubric.
In North America, Slavic studies are dominated by Russian studies; Ewa Thompson describes the situation of non-Russian Slavic studies as "invisible and mute."
History
Slavistics emerged in late 18th and early 19th century, simultaneously with national revivals among various nations of Slavic origins and with ideological attempts to establish a common sense of Slavic community, exemplified by the Pan-Slavist movement. Among the first scholars to use the term was Josef Dobrovský.The history of Slavic studies is generally divided into three periods. Until 1876 the early Slavists concentrated on documentation and printing of monuments of Slavic languages, among them the first texts written in national languages. At this time the majority of Slavic languages received their first modern dictionaries, grammars and compendia. The second period, ending with World War I, featured the rapid development of Slavic philology and linguistics, most notably outside of Slavic countries themselves, in the circle formed around August Schleicher and around August Leskien at the University of Leipzig.
After World War I Slavic studies scholars focused on dialectology, while the science continued to develop in countries with large populations having Slavic origins. After World War II there were developed centres of Slavic studies, and much greater expansion into other humanities and social science disciplines in various universities around the world. Indeed, partly due to the political concerns in Western European and the United States about the Slavic world nurtured by the Cold War, Slavic studies flourished in the years from World War II into the 1990s and remain strong, though university enrollments in Slavic languages have declined since the 1990s.
Slavic countries and areas of interest
- By country:
- * Belarus: language, literature, culture, history
- * Bosnia and Herzegovina: language, literature, culture, history
- * Bulgaria: language, literature, culture, history
- * Croatia: language, literature, culture, history
- * Czech Republic: language, literature, culture, history
- * North Macedonia: language, literature, culture, history, Macedonistics
- * Montenegro: language, culture, history
- * Poland: languages/dialects, literature, culture, history
- * Russia: language, literature, culture, history
- * Serbia: language, literature, culture, history
- * Slovakia: language, literature, culture, history
- * Slovenia: language, literature, culture, history
- * Ukraine: language, literature, culture, history
- Other languages: Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian, Kashubian, Polabian, Rusyn, Old Church Slavonic
Notable people
- Johann Christoph Jordan, the author of an early scholarly work in Slavic studies
- Josef Dobrovský from Bohemia
- Jernej Kopitar from Slovenia
- Alexander Vostokov from Russia
- Vuk Stefanović Karadžić from Serbia
- Pavel Jozef Šafárik from Slovakia
- Mykhaylo Maksymovych from Ukraine
- Izmail Sreznevsky from Russia
- Franz Miklosich from Slovenia
- Fyodor Buslaev from Russia
- August Schleicher from Germany
- Đuro Daničić from Serbia
- Anton Janežič from Slovenia
- Alexander Potebnja from Ukraine
- Vatroslav Jagić from modern-day Croatia
- August Leskien from Germany
- Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay from Poland
- from Russia
- Aleksander Brückner from eastern Galicia.
- Matija Murko from Slovenia
- Lyubomir Miletich from Bulgaria/Macedonia
- Aleksey Shakhmatov from Russia
- Antoine Meillet from France
- Holger Pedersen from Denmark
- 1869—1942) from Russia
- from Slovenia
- Krste Misirkov from Macedonia/Bulgaria/Russia
- Aleksandar Belić from Serbia
- from France
- Max Vasmer from Russia
- André Vaillant from France
- Dmytro Chyzhevsky from Ukraine
- Roman Jakobson from Russia
- from Austria
- Zdzisław Stieber from Poland
- Dmitry Likhachev from Russia
- George Shevelov from Ukraine
- Jaroslav Rudnyckyj from eastern Galicia
- Stoyko Stoykov from Bulgaria
- Horace G. Lunt from the United States
- Karel van het Reve from the Netherlands
- Blaže Koneski from North Macedonia
- Yuri Lotman from Soviet Union/Estonia
- Henrik Birnbaum from Poland/United States
- Vladislav Illich-Svitych from Russia
- Thomas Schaub Noonan from the United States
- Wolfgang Kasack from Germany
- Isabel Margaret de Madariaga from UK
- John Simon Gabriel Simmons from UK
- Pavle Ivić from modern-day Serbia
- Edward Stankiewicz from Poland/United States
- Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Russian-American
- Alexander M. Schenker from the United States
- Irwin Weil from the United States
- Zoe Hauptová from the Czech Republic
- Vladimir Dybo from Russia
- Radoslav Katičić from Croatia
- Blaže Ristovski from North Macedonia
- Hakan Kırımlı from Turkey
- Stefan Brezinski from Bulgaria
- Andrey Zaliznyak from Russia
- Kenneth Naylor from the United States
- from Germany
- Boris Uspensky from Russia
- Branko Mikasinovich from the United States
- Mario Capaldo from Italy
- Frederik Kortlandt from Netherlands
- Gary Saul Morson from the United States
- Victor Friedman from the United States
- Christina Kramer from the United States
- Ivo Pospíšil from the Czech Republic
- Alexander F. Tsvirkun from Ukraine
- Snježana Kordić from Croatia
- Charles S. Kraszewski from the United States
- Marek Jan Chodakiewicz from Poland and the United States
- Alexandra Popoff from Russia
- Catriona Kelly from UK
- Aage Hansen-Löve from Austria
Journals and book series
- Archiv für slavische Philologie
- The Russian Review
- Sarmatian Review
- Slavic and East European Journal, published by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
- Slavic Review, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
- Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics
- The Slavonic and East European Review
- Scando-Slavica
- Wiener Slawistischer Almanach
Conferences
- American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
- Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
Institutes and schools
- Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Institute of Slavonic Philology, University of Silesia, Poland
- Institute of Slavonic Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland
- , University of Belgrade, Serbia
- , University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, United Kingdom
- , University of California at Berkeley, United States
- , University of Vienna, Austria
- , University of Graz, Austria
- Department of Slavic Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria
- , Heidelberg University, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Slavistics, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Institute for Slavic Studies, Humboldt University, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany
- Institute of Slavic Studies, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
- Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Pécs, Hungary
- Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
- Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Library guides
- . University College London, School of Slavonic & East European Studies