За писменото наследство на Димитър Матов (1864-1896)
On Dimitar Matov’s (1864 – 1896) Linguistic Legasy

Author(s): Angel G. Angelov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Historical Linguistics
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Bulgarian language; Slavic studies; language contacts; education
Summary/Abstract: This article offers a new reading of some works of Dimitar Matov (1864-1896) – a remarkable Bulgarian linguist from the end of 19th century. Despite his short life, his scientific legacy remains as a valuable achievement in Slavic and Balkan studies, and can be seen as a good example of excellent activity in linguistics and ethnography. He was educated in the city of Kharkov, as well as in Vienna, Leipzig and Sofia, and his analyses reflect the level of late 19th-century linguistic scholarship, as they focus mainly on word etymology and historical reconstructions in the tradition of Franz Mikloshić, August Leskien, Gustav Weigand and Vatroslav Jagić. One of the best works of this author, which has a programmatic character, is dedicated to Greek-Bulgarian language contacts. It is obvious that a very large-scale project was conceived, which was even to develop as an academic school in the following decades; however, the early death of the author was a great loss for Balkanology as was noted even then by a number of his contemporaries.

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