The paper examines the manuscript of Lovro Požar's 1881 doctoral dissertation, The Development of Poetic Language among Slovenes, the first dissertation to have been written in Slovene. An account of its genesis is accompanied by the presentation of its most interesting passages. The introduction surveys roughly 90 extant doctoral dissertation manuscripts which were submitted by Slovene candidates at the Faculties of Arts in Vienna, Graz and Prague between 1872 and 1918.
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