- Urban Jarnik
Urban Jarnik (
11 May 1784 -11 June 1844 ) was a Carinthian Slovenepriest ,historian ,poet ,author andethnographer .He was born in the lower
Gailtal in theDuchy of Carinthia . He served as a parish priest in several villages and towns throughout southern Carinthia, includingKlagenfurt and Moosburg, which at the time still had a large Slovene-speaking population. Living among the Slovenian-speaking populations, Jarnik developed an interest in the manySlovenian dialects spoken in the era. He became the first Slovenian dialectologist and ethnographist.He was co-editor of the bilingual scientific-cultural journal "Carinthia", edited in Klagenfurt. In his numerous articles, he wrote about the customs and rural cultural traditions of the local Slovenes. He also collected and edited several books of Slovenian and Slavic folk songs and tales. He strongly influenced later generations of Slovenian ethnologists, folklore collectors and philologists wholived or worked in Carinthia, such as
Anton Janežič ,Matija Majar ,Matija Ahacel andAnton Martin Slomšek .He died in Moosburg.
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Jernej Kopitar External links
* [http://www.ethno.at The Offical Page of the Slovenian Ethnographic Institute in Austria]
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