The paper presents works written by European intellectuals in the 17th and 18th centuries which mention the first grammar of the Slovene language, written by Protestant scholar Adam Bohorič in 1584. Bohorič's grammar Arcticae horulae succisivae was suppressed and forgotten among Slovenes for more than a century, but it was well-known to European intellectuals of the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly Protestants. Among them was one of Europe's most influential early modern thinkers, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who very interested in Bohorič's grammar and referred to the Slovene language as antiqua lingua Carniolana.
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