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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Died in 1864

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was born in 1787 at Tršić, near Loznica, in Ottoman Serbia. Self-taught, he served as a scribe in the First Serbian Uprising, and an illness contracted at that time left him lame for life. A refugee in Vienna after the crushing of the insurrection in 1813, he met there the Slovene Slavist Jernej Kopitar, who encouraged him to collect oral poetry. He reformed the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet on the principle of one letter per sound, published a grammar in 1814 and a dictionary in 1818, and died in Vienna in 1864; his remains were brought back to Belgrade in 1897.

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