Karaman, Matvey

Matvei ( Matei , Matija ) Karaman ( Croatian Matej Karaman , Serb. Matija Karaman , June 6, 1700, Split - June 5, 1771, Zadar ^[1] ) - Croatian Catholic priest, missionary and philologist. He studied in St. Petersburg , tried to organize a Benedictine monastery (with Slavic Glagolic worship) in Russia, and later was the archbishop of Zadar . He was engaged in the correction of Croatian Glagolic liturgical texts. To this end, in 1732 he was sent by the pope to Moscow , where he stayed for several years, working on comparing the South Slavic texts with the Russian Slavic ones. The fruit of this comparison was “Missal Roman in Slavic, by the order of P [resumable] G [podpod] N [your] Urban osmoy published” (Rome, 1741 ). In this and his other publications, Karaman essentially replaces the Croatian exodus of the Church Slavonic language with Russian (considering the first to be greatly corrupted, and the second to preserve the Old Slavic norm), which was accepted with great criticism and is sometimes presented as one of the main reasons for the subsequent decline of Croatian-Glagolic books in general .