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August Cesarec
August Cesarec (1893–1941) was a Croatian writer, publicist, and communist revolutionary, prominent in the Croatian leftist literary avant-garde; he was executed by Ustaša authorities in 1941.
Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović (Доситеј Обрадовић), born Dimitrije, was a Serbian Enlightenment writer and language reformer who founded the University of Belgrade's predecessor and became Serbia's first education minister in 1811.
Ferenc Kazinczy
Ferenc Kazinczy (1759–1831) was a Hungarian writer and the leading figure of the nyelvújítás, the Hungarian language reform of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Francysk Skaryna
Francysk Skaryna (Belarusian: Францыск Скарына), also Francis Skorina, was a Belarusian pioneer printer who produced the first printed Bible in Church Slavonic, beginning in Prague in 1517.
Gjon Buzuku
Gjon Buzuku was a sixteenth-century northern Albanian Catholic priest, author and translator of Meshari, the first known book written in Albanian, completed January 5, 1555.
Hnat Khotkevych
Hnat Khotkevych (Ukrainian: Гнат Хоткевич), writing also as Hnat Halaida, was a Ukrainian writer, composer, and bandurist born in Kharkiv in 1877 and executed by the Soviet NKVD in 1938.
Ivan Bogorov
Ivan Bogorov (Иван Богоров) was a Bulgarian Renaissance encyclopedist, physician, and language planner who founded the first Bulgarian newspaper, Bălgarski Orel, in Leipzig in 1846.
Jan Blahoslav
Jan Blahoslav (1523–1571) was a Czech bishop of the Unity of Brethren, humanist scholar, and translator of the Czech New Testament of 1564, predecessor of the Bible kralická.
Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki (1761–1815) was a Polish count, writer, traveler, and scholar who wrote in French and is best known for the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
Jazep Losik
Jazep Losik (Язэп Лёсік, 1883–1940) was a Belarusian linguist and political figure, second chairman of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and a founder of standardized Belarusian grammar.
Lumírovci
The lumírovci, or Lumír group, were Czech writers of the 1870s and 1880s grouped around the journal Lumír, known as the cosmopolitan school and led by Jaroslav Vrchlický.
Nashanivtsy
Nashanivtsy (Belarusian: нашаніўцы) were the Belarusian writers, publicists, and cultural figures grouped around the weekly newspaper Naša Niva, published in Vilna from 1906 to 1915.
Olena Pchilka
Olena Pchilka (Олена Пчілка), pen name of Olha Petrivna Kosach, was a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, and editor, and the mother of the poet Lesia Ukrainka.
Ruthenian Triad
The Ruthenian Triad (Руська трійця) was a Galician literary group of three students at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv who launched modern Ukrainian literature in the 1830s.
Serbian Dictionary
The Serbian Dictionary (Serbian: Srpski rječnik) is the foundational dictionary of the modern Serbian language, compiled by language reformer Vuk Karadžić and published in Vienna in 1818 and 1852.
Štúr generation
The Štúr generation (Slovak: Štúrovci) was a group of Slovak Romantic writers of the 1830s and 1840s, led by Ľudovít Štúr, who codified the modern Slovak literary language.
Svetozár Hurban Vajanský
Svetozár Hurban Vajanský, born Svetozár Miloslav Hurban (1847–1916), was a Slovak writer, poet, critic, and politician, the leading figure of Slovak public life at the turn of the 20th century.
Uladzimir Arlou
Uladzimir Arlou (Belarusian: Уладзімір Арлоў), born 1953 in Polacak, is a Belarusian prose writer, poet, essayist, and historian regarded as the leading figure of Belarusian historical prose after Uladzimir Karatkevich.