FROM THE HISTORY OF SLAVIC STUDIES: THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGINS OF THE OLD SLAVONIC LANGUAGE IN THE 19th CENTURY \(ON THE EXAMPLES OF THE RESEARCH OF KOPITAR, BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY AND OBLAK)

The article traces ways of the search for the origins of the Church Slavonic language on the examples of the studies of the most famous Slavic Slavists of the 19th century, namely: the Slovenian linguist B. Kopitar, the author of the Pannonian theory of the origin of the Old Slavonic language, the Polish Slavist Baudouin de Courtenay and his student, another Slovenian Slavist V. Oblak , the role of Baudouin in the formation of Oblak as the most productive researcher and author of the Macedonian theory of the origin of the Old Slavonic language is indicated, the methods of scientific communication of a wide range of Slavic linguists are traced, the features of Oblak's scientific approach in the development of the Macedonian theory at the end of the 19th century are proposed.