FRANZ VON

See also:

• FRANZ VON MIKLOSICH (1813–1891)

MIKLOSICH (1813–1891)  , Austrian philologist, was born at Luttenberg, Styria, on the 29th of November 1813 . He graduated at the university at Gratz as a doctor of philosophy, and was for a time professor of philosophy there . In 1838 he went to Vienna, where he took the degree of doctor of law . He devoted himself, however, to the study of Slavonic languages, abandoned the law, and obtained a post in the imperial library, where he remained from 1844 to 1862 . In the former year he published a noteworthy review of Bopp's Comparative Grammar, and this began a long series of works of immense erudition which completely revolutionized the study of Slavonic languages . In 1849 Miklosich was appointed to the newly created chair of Slavonic philology at the university of Vienna, and he occupied it until 1886 . He became a member of the Academy of Vienna, which appointed him secretary of its historical and philosophical section, a member of the council of public instruction and of the upper house, and correspondent of the French Academy of Inscription . His numerous writings deal not only with the Slav languages, but with Rumanian, Albanian, Greek, and the language of the gypsies . Miklosich died on the 7th of March 1891 .