ATANACKOVIĆ, Platon (born Pavle Atanacković). Sombor in Vojvodina 10.7.1788 — Novi Sad 21.4.1867. Serbian Orthodox Bishop interested in Linguistics. Born in the then Austro-Hungarian Northern Serbia, became monk after his wife’s death in 1829. Soon Archimandrite, from 1839 Bishop of Buda and from 1851 Bishop of Bačka. Promoted education in his home country. With the help of the German translation of —> Eichhoff’s works he made a comparison between Serbian and Sanskrit.
Publications: A number of educational books, school grammars of Serbian and German.
– “Srodstvo slavenoserbskog jezika sa sanskritam”, Latopis Matice Srpske 1843 (Affinity of Slavo-Serbian languages and Sanskrit).
Sources: Vyncke 1973, 531; *Enciklopedija Jugoslavije 1, Zagreb 1955, 229, id. liber, new ed. 1, Zagreb 1980, 317; Wikipedia with portrait.
Last Updated on 1 week by Admin
