Vatroslav Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Cenarius: Hi pigscanfly42,

Unfortunately there's been some continuing issues with this cache and there is no reaction from the owner. Since the cache no longer meets the Guidelines requirements, I am archiving it. I'm also archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

If you think you have legitimate reasons for lack of maintenance and want to restore the cache in the near future, please let me know as soon as possible by the email provided in my profile. The message must include the GC code and the name of the cache. If the cache meets the requirements of the Guidelines and the reasons for unarchiving are justified, I may unarchive the cache.

IMPORTANT:
In case of permanent archiving of the cache, the owners are obliged to remove everything that they have placed on the field in relation to the cache (container and all placed waypoints).

Thank you for your understanding and best regards.

Cenarius
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Hidden : 11/10/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is a small cache located in a public place. Please bring your own pen!

The cache is situated inside a park dedicated to Vatroslav Jagic. Jagic was born in Varaždin (then known by its German name of Warasdin) where he attended the elementary school and is the place where he started his middle school education. He finished that level of education at the Gymnasium in Zagreb. Having a particular interest in philology, he moved to Vienna where he was lectured in Slavistics under the guidance of Franc Miklošic. He continued his studies and defended his doctoral dissertation Das Leben der Wurzel 'dê in Croatischen Sprachen in Leipzig (Germany) in 1871.

Upon finishing the studies Jagic returned to Zagreb where in the period between 1860–1870 he held the position of Professor at Gymnasium (Croatian High School).

In 1869, Jagic was elected a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (at that time named the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts), and a correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Next year, 1871, he became a professor of Slavistics in Odessa University (Novorossiysk University) and worked also in Berlin where he moved in 1874 to become the very first professor of Slavistics at the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin. Jagic held the mentioned post until 1880 when he moved again and became teacher at the University of St Petersburg.

In 1886 he returned to Vienna where his studies started to be a replacement for retiring former lecturer Miklošic at the University of Vienna. Here he educated, researched, published and worked until his own retirement in 1908.

Jagic died in Vienna but was put to rest in native Varaždin.

Works on literature and language written by Jagic started to be published for the first time in the reports of the Gymnasium where he worked. In 1863, with his fellow researchers Franjo Torbar and Franjo Racki he initiated a journal named Književnik. Within, he published several articles regarding the problematic of the grammar, syntax, as well that one of history of the language used by Croats. His works were noticed within the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU) founded in Croatia in 1866. His works and polemics were mainly related to verbs, its paleography, vocalization of the language, folk poetry and its sources. At that time he also initiated publishing the collection of the works written by old Croatian writers.

In Berlin, he initiated publishing Archiv für slavische Philologie ("Archive for Slavic Philology"), and kept editing it for 45 years. The periodical focused the attention of scholars and ordinary people to Slavs, increased their interest in the Slav language and their culture. It also confirmed the importance of Slavistics, its methodology and validity as a scientific discipline.

While in Vienna, his intention was to write an encyclopedia related to the philology of the Slavs. This idea caused him to write Istorija slavjanskoj filologii ("History of Slavic philology"). This book was published in Petrograd in 1910 and contains the retrospective on the development of Slavistics since the beginning to the end of 19th century.

Jagic's work is impressive in scope and quality: Croatian linguist Josip Hamm has remarked that Jagic's collected works would, put together, number more than 100 volumes of large format.

Among his most famous students were the Polish Slavist, Aleksander Brückner, and the Ukrainian poet and scholar, Ivan Franko.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur "ohful pnir"

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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