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Dobrovský, Josef (1753–1829)| Czech scholar, born in Slovakia. He codified the modern Czech language in his grammar of 1809, and helped to form the rules of Czech prosody (writing in verse). He wrote almost entirely in Latin and German. |
| Dobrovský laid the foundations for comparative Slavonic philology (the science of language) in Institutiones linguae slavicae dialecti veteris (1822). |
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