Abstract
The building of the modern Czech nation in the nineteenth century depended to a considerable extent on a scientific description of its language and literature. This chapter describes the origins, formation, methods and goals of Czech philology, as embodied by three generations of scholars from Vaclav Fortunat Durych and Josef Dobrovskỳ, to Josef Jungmann. From oriental philological studies Dobrovskỳ and his circle adopted the method of comparative linguistics and applied it to the Slavic languages and dialects. References to analogous properties of the Slavic dialects in comparison with oriental languages can be found mainly in the work of the two founders of Slavic philology, Dobrovskỳ and Durych. Jungmann's first major and minor translations were essentially a thesaurus of the new Czech language which Jungmann created in his greatest work, the Czech-German dictionary. Keywords: Czech philology; Josef Dobrovskỳ; Josef Jungmann; Slavic linguistics; Vaclav Fortunat Durych
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