Adam František Kollár

Adam František Kollár
Adam František Kollár, 1779
Born	17 April 1718 Tyerhova, Kingdom of Hungary (now Terchová, Slovakia)
Died	10 July 1783 (aged 65) Vienna, Archduchy of Austria (now Austria)
Residence	Vienna
Other names	Adam Franciscus Kollar Adam Franz Kollar Kollár Ádám Ferenc
Education	University of Vienna
Occupation	Chief Imp.-Royal Librarian Imp.-Royal Court Councilor
Employer	Empress Maria Theresa
Known for	Coined the term ethnology Contributions to Ratio educationis of 1777 Advocacy of Habsburg Enlightened centralism
Salary	4,000 gulden (1774–1781)
Title	Nobilis (landed in 1775)
Predecessor	Gerard van Swieten
Successor	Joseph von Martines
Children	Theresa (1773–1774)
Parent(s)	Matej Kolárik Regína Myslovská

Adam František Kollár de Keresztén (German: Adam Franz Kollar von Keresztén,Hungarian: kereszténi Kollár Ádám Ferenc; 1718–1783) was a Slovak jurist, Imperial-Royal Court Councilor 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 advancement of Maria Theresa's status in the Kingdom of Hungary as its apostolic ruler in 1772 was used as an argument in support of the subsequent Habsburg annexations of Galicia and Dalmatia. Kollár is also credited with coining the term ethnology and providing its first definition in 1783. Some authors see him as one of the earliest pro-Slovak, pro-Slavic, and pan-Slavic activists in the Habsburg Monarchy.

Kollár was born to the family of a lower nobleman probably during the week before the recorded date of his baptism on Sunday, 17 April 1718, in Terchová, now in Slovakia, then Tyerhova in the Kingdom of Hungary. Sources often give the date of his baptism as his birth date. Some earlier sources give the day of his birth as 15 April, and the oldest Austrian biographies had the year 1723. His ancestor Ladislaus (Ladislav) Kollar was ennobled in 1593. Adam F. Kollár died on 10 July 1783 in Vienna, then the capital of the Habsburg Monarchy. Sources also give other dates for his death, the 13th, and 15th of the same month.