Bartol Kašić (also Bartul Kašić, Bartholomaeus Cassius, Bartolomeo Cassio, sometimes signing as Bogdančić and/or Pažanin; August 15, 1575 - December 28, 1650) was a Croatian linguist. He wrote the first Croatian grammar and translated the Bible and the Roman Rite into Croatian. He is considered the father of Croatian linguistics and one of the greatest men of letters in Croatian history.
Kašić was born on the island of Pag. His father died when h...
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Bartol Kašić (also Bartul Kašić, Bartholomaeus Cassius, Bartolomeo Cassio, sometimes signing as Bogdančić and/or Pažanin; August 15, 1575 - December 28, 1650) was a Croatian linguist. He wrote the first Croatian grammar and translated the Bible and the Roman Rite into Croatian. He is considered the father of Croatian linguistics and one of the greatest men of letters in Croatian history.
Kašić was born on the island of Pag. His father died when he was a small child, so he was raised by his uncle Luka Deodati Bogdančić, a priest from Pag, who taught him to read and write. He attended the municipal school in the town of Pag. After 1590 he studied at the Illyric College in Loreto near Ancona, Italy, managed by the Jesuits. As a gifted and industrious pupil, he was sent to further studies in Rome in 1593, where he joined the Society of Jesus in 1595.
Kašić was made a priest in 1606 and served as a confessor in the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. He lived in Dubrovnik from 1609 to 1612. In...
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