Everything about Peter Dajnko totally explained
Peter Dajnko (
april 23 1787 -
february 22 1873) was a
Slovenian priest,
author and
linguist, known primarily as the inventor of an inventive proposal for the writing system for the
Slovenian language - the so called
Dajnko alphabet or
dajnčica.
He was born in village of Črešnjevci near the town of
Gornja Radgona, in what was then the
Duchy of Styria in the
Habsburg Monarchy. After finishing high school in
Maribor, he studied
theology and
philosophy at the
University of Graz, where he graduated in
1814.
In
1824 he wrote a book in
German, called
Lehrbuch der windischen Sprache or "Textbook for the Slovenian language". In it, he proposed the adoption of a new alphabet for Slovenian, which was to replace the traditional
Bohorič alphabet, used since the late
16th century. According to Dajnko, the old script had shown clear deficiencies, since it didn't fit well with the
phonetic structure of Slovenian. Dajnko's somehow odd proposal (it included several characters not found in the
Latin script), created a long lasting controversy, which became known as the
črkarska pravda or the "Character War". Among Dajnko's most fierce opponents were the philologist
Matija Čop and the poet
France Prešeren, while he did enjoy some initial support from the linguist
Jernej Kopitar. In
1825,
Franc Serafin Metelko came out with a similar proposal, further complicating the issue.
After
1839 his proposal became obsolete with the adoption of a slightly modified version of
Gaj's Latin alphabet as the new Slovenian script. Dajnko nevertheless continued to use his own alphabet in all his later Slovene books.
Dajnko was also a professional
beekeeper and introduced several innovations in
apiculture, following the example of his fellow countryman
Anton Janša.
He died in the town of Velika Nedelja in his native
Lower Styria.
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