Summary
Adolfo Veber: Road to Plitvice (2nd ed.)
Adolfo Weber Tkalčević (Bakar, May 11 1825 - Zagreb, August 6 1889 href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrvatska">Croatian philologist, writer, literary critic, travel writer and esthetician.
He completed philosophy in Zagreb, the seminary in Pest, and Slavic studies in Vienna. He continued the plantings of Gaius Illyrianism, Vjekoslav Babukić and Antun Mažuranić, but moved away from Gajeva's efforts to connect with V. Karadžić. He is important as one of the storytellers who in the middle of the 19th century interrupted the practice of the Turkish novella and romantic prose by introducing realistic features in Croatian literature. Njegovi estetički nazori s klasicističkom pozadinom utjecali su na njegove filološke radove i mnoga rješenja u normizaciji hrvatskog književnog jezika.
Predavao je latinski i hrvatski jezik u Zagrebu u Classical Gymnasium from 1850 to 1868.[1] He was the director Classic high schools in Zagreb from 1860 to 1868.[2]
He is the author of the first syntax of literary language in Croatian Skladnja ilirskog jezikja published 1859 in Vienna. He prepared several school reading books and wrote grammars of the Croatian and Latin languages for secondary schools. His Slovnica Croatian from 1871 served as a high school textbook, and as a norm and codification of the literary language of the time. He published a defense of the Illyrian understanding of the literary language in Vienna 1884 under the title Brus jezika or the Zagreb school. After Babukić and Antun Mažuranić, he became the leader of the Zagreb philological school.
From Weber's works of fine literature are his travelogues. A Trip to Plitvice (1860), Letters about Italy (1861) and A Trip to Constantinople (1886) were published in separate books.
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