Description: (Philologist, Anthropologist and Linguist)
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a prominent Serbian philologist, anthropologist, and linguist known for his significant contributions to the reform of the modern Serbian language. He played a crucial role in Serbian folk-literature scholarship by collecting and preserving Serbian folktales. Karadžić also authored the first Serbian dictionary in the reformed language and translated the New Testament into this updated form of Serbian spelling and language. His work had a wide-reaching influence, with esteemed figures such as Jacob Grimm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and historian Leopold von Ranke acknowledging his achievements.