Four Centuries since the Beginning of the Teaching of Croatian at the Academic Level Cover Image

Četiri stoljeća od početka visokoškolske nastave hrvatskoga jezika
Four Centuries since the Beginning of the Teaching of Croatian at the Academic Level

Author(s): Vladimir Horvat
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Croatian Literature, South Slavic Languages, Higher Education , Philology
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: Four Centuries; Teaching of Croatian at the Academic Level; Jesuit educational system;

Summary/Abstract: According to the recently published final version of the Jesuit educational system, Ratio Studiorum, Academia linguae illyricae at the Roman college, then the highest church university (the present-day Gregoriana) was founded in December 1599. The Academy was entrusted to Bartol Kašić, the first teacher or lector, who immediately started teaching Croatian and putting together the first grammar, Institutiones linguae illyricae, published in 1604. The Academy and Kašić lay the foundation of the standardization of Croatian and the grammar became a model for later grammarians.

  • Issue Year: 48/2001
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-10
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian