Ján Stanislav
Life
Life
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He was born in [Liptovský Ján](/wiki/Liptovsk%C3%BD_J%C3%A1n "Liptovský Ján") in December 1904\. Stanislav studied [Slavic studies](/wiki/Slavic_studies "Slavic studies") and [Romance studies](/wiki/Romance_studies "Romance studies") at the [Comenius University in Bratislava](/wiki/Comenius_University_in_Bratislava "Comenius University in Bratislava"), but also at the universities in Paris, [Kraków](/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w "Kraków") and [Ljubljana](/wiki/Ljubljana "Ljubljana"). He graduated from Faculty of Philosophy of [Comenius University in Bratislava](/wiki/Comenius_University_in_Bratislava "Comenius University in Bratislava") in 1928\. Then he worked as an assistant and a [docent](/wiki/Docent "Docent") at the Slavic Seminar of the university. In 1936, he became a professor of comparative Slavic linguistics and [Old Church Slavonic](/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic "Old Church Slavonic"). He dealt with linguistic and cultural conditions in the [Great Moravia](/wiki/Great_Moravia "Great Moravia"), but also with Slovak historical grammar, the earliest history of Slovak language and Slovaks. The name of Jan Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of [Slovak Academy of Sciences](/wiki/Slovak_Academy_of_Sciences "Slovak Academy of Sciences") pays honours to his work.


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