Adolfo Veber Tkalčević

Adolfo Veber Tkalčević (Bakar, 11 May 1825 - Zagreb, 6 August 1889), Croatian philologist, writer, literary critic and aestheticist.

He received degrees in philosophy in Zagreb, theology in Budapest and Slavistics in Vienna.

He has continued the tradition of the Illyrian movement, as outlined by Vjekoslav Babukić and Antun Mažuranić, but clearly distanced himself from Gaj'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 the elements of Realism into Croatian litterature. His æsthetic views with an classicistic background influenced his philological works and many of his solutions in norming the Croatian standard language.

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 Katičić, "Prva gramatika Adolfa Vebera Tkalčevića", Filologija, Knj. 14, 1986.

External links and sources

* [http://www.hrvatskiplus.org/main.php?id_doc=62 Zagrebačka slavistička škola] (Zagreb School of Slavistics)
* [http://www.ihjj.hr/oHrJeziku-gramatike.html Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje] Gramatike (slovnice) hrvatskog jezika (Grammars of Croatian llanguage)
* [http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/34939 Ljiljana Kolenić: Pogled u tvorbu staroga hrvatskoga gramatičkoga nazivlja] (*.pdf), Filologija, br. 46-47., Zagreb, 2006.
* [http://www.matica.hr/Vijenac/vij209.nsf/AllWebDocs/prenja Vijenac] Žalosna prenja naraštajnog prenjca
* [http://knjiznice.ffzg.hr/webpac/?rm=results&show_full=1&f=UncontrolledTerms&v=Veber,%20Adolfo Faculty of Philosophy-Library catalogue]