"What is a letter?..." from the first edition of Smotrytsky's grammar

Meletius Smotrytsky (Ukrainian: Мелетій Смотрицький; Belarusian: Мялецій Сматрыцкі; Russian: Мелетий Смотрицкий), né Maksym Herasymovytch (c. 1577 – 17(27) December 1633) was a Ruthenian (Ukrainian, Belarusian) linguist from Galicia, author and religious activist. Son of the famous Ukrainian religious and political activist Herasym Smotrytsky. Education in Ostrog (modern Ostroh) and Vilnius, as well as Leipzig, Wittenberg and Nuremberg, later rector of the brotherhood's school in Kiev. Image File history File links Smotrytsky_meletij. ... Image File history File links Smotrytsky_meletij. ... Download high resolution version (349x602, 7 KB)This page from the Church Slavonic Grammar (1619) by Meletius Smotrisky (R Мелетий Смотриский /meletij smotriskij/) gives the Cyrillic alphabet in the semi-uncial style (R полуустав /poluustav/) as it was used in Eastern Europe (Muscovy, Ukraine, parts... Download high resolution version (349x602, 7 KB)This page from the Church Slavonic Grammar (1619) by Meletius Smotrisky (R Мелетий Смотриский /meletij smotriskij/) gives the Cyrillic alphabet in the semi-uncial style (R полуустав /poluustav/) as it was used in Eastern Europe (Muscovy, Ukraine, parts... Events March 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold May 28 - Publication of the Bergen Book, better known as the Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran confessional writings. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events February 13 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. ... Ruthenian was a historic East Slavic language, spoken in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and after 1569 in the East Slavic territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ... The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, or simply Galicia, was the largest, most populous, and northernmost province of Austria from 1772 until 1918, with Lemberg (Lwów, Lviv) as its capital city. ... Location Ethnographic region DzÅ«kija County Vilnius County Municipality Vilnius city municipality Elderate Number of elderates 21 General information Capital of Lithuania Vilnius County Vilnius city municipality Vilnius district municipality Population (rank) 540,318 in 2005 (1st) First mentioned 1323 Granted city rights 1387 The Three Crosses monument in Vilnius. ... Leipzig â–¶(?) [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... Statue of Martin Luther in the main square Wittenberg, officially [Die] Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a town in Germany, in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, at 12° 59 E, 51° 51 N, on the Elbe river. ... Hl. ... A monument to St. ...

Smotrytsky is best known for his Grammar of Church Slavonic (Грамматіки славєнския правилноє Сvнтаґма, 1619), which codified what is now known as "Modern Church Slavonic" or, more specifically, "Meletian Church Slavonic" and had an enormous impact on the literary usage in Church Slavonic texts throughout the Slavonic countries. The grammar was reprinted many times. Church Slavonic may refer to: Old Church Slavonic language Church Slavonic language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Events May 13 - Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason. ...

References

• Frick, David A. Meletij Smotryc’kyj. Cambridge/Mass. 1995.
• Horbatsch, Olexa (ed.). Meletij Smotryc’kyj: Hrammatiki Slavenskija Pravilnoe Syntagma. Jevje 1619. Kirchenslavische Grammatik (Erstausgabe). Frankfurt am Main 1974.
• Pugh, Stefan M. Testament to Ruthenian. A linguistic analysis of the Smotryc’kyj variant. Cambridge/Mass. 1996.

External links

• Meletij Smotryc'kyj. Grammar, 1619. (Reprint edition, with ukrainian interface)
• Meletiy Smotritsky, in online Russian Biographical Dictionary (in Russian)
• Meletiy Smotrytsky: a publicist, a scientist and a patriot in Day, 2003, 23 (in Ukrainian).