Četiri stoljeća od početka visokoškolske nastave hrvatskoga jezika
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.
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