id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7143 Adam František Kollár - Wikipedia .html text/html 3471 431 63 Adam František Kollár de Keresztén (German: Adam Franz Kollar von Keresztén,[1] Hungarian: kereszténi Kollár Ádám Ferenc; 1718–1783) was a Slovak[2] jurist, Imperial-Royal Court Councillor and Chief Imperial-Royal Librarian, a member of Natio Hungarica in the Kingdom of Hungary, a historian, ethnologist, an influential advocate of Empress Maria Theresa's Enlightened and centralist policies. His high school student report card graded his native Slovak and Latin as good, his German as above average.[3] He began his studies of theology at the University of Vienna with two years of Hebrew and the Middle Eastern languages.[8] He left the Society of Jesus upon graduation. Kollár's editorial work with manuscripts from various cultures and languages, in addition to his familiarity with the linguistic and cultural diversity of his native Kingdom of Hungary,[9] made him an early student of ethnology and the scholar who actually coined and defined the term in Historiae jurisque publici...[10] published in 1783.[11] Unlike a later, more general definition by Alexandre César de Chavannes from 1787 (sometimes mistaken for a first occurrence of the concept[12]) who saw it as "the history of peoples progressing towards civilization",[13] Kollár coined and defined ethnologia as: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7143.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7143.txt