VUK AND ILLYRIAN MOVEMENT

Abstract

Vuk’s works have permanent value and as such have become a part of our everyday lives, Many works have been published on the relationship between Vul and the Illyrian Movement, but that subject has not obviously been exhausted yet. In Vuk’s day the Balkan peoples were divided and lived in several states. Vuk’s appearance in literary and cultural life coincided with the awakening and creation of national consciousness and renaissance of the South Slavs. The list of the members of the Illyrian Movement who were Vul’s followers is long, but it is clear that Ljudevit Gaj was the originator of the Illyrian Movement and a_ great follower of Vuk’s whome he greatly respected. Gaj, as the editor of Danica llirska, promoted Vur’s work on the collecting of folk poems, and published the poems collected by Vuk. Vuk had had numerous meetings with the members of the Illyrian movement even before he came to Zagreb. He met F. Kurlec, Adam Heldentalski, Alojz Brli¢, Ivan Mazurani¢, I. K. Sakcinski and many others. The pinacle of that work was the literary agreement in Vienna in 1850. In spite of being hard and toiisome, Vuk’s work on the language renaissance was successful and fruitful and we profit from its results even now.