Meletius Smotrytsky

Meletius Smotrytsky
Born	Maksym Herasymovych Smotrytsky c.1577 Smotrych, Podolian Voivodeship, Poland
Died	December 27, 1633 (aged 56) Derman village, Volhynian Voivodeship, Poland
Citizenship	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Alma mater	Ostroh Academy Vilnius University (1600)
Occupation	religious writer, linguist
Known for	"Slavonic Grammar with Correct Syntax" (1619)
Parent(s)	Herasym Smotrytsky

Meletius Smotrytsky (Ukrainian: Мелетій Смотрицький, Meletiy Smotryts’kyy; Belarusian: Мялецій Сматрыцкі; Polish: Melecjusz Smotrycki), né Maksym Herasymovytch Smotrytsky (c. 1577 – December 17 (27), 1633), Archbishop of Polotsk (Metropolitan of Kiev), was a writer, a religious and pedagogical activist of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, a Ruthenian linguist whose works influenced the development of the Eastern Slavic languages. His book "Slavonic Grammar with Correct Syntax" (1619) systematized the study of Church Slavonic and, according to Vinokur, "became the standard grammar book in Russia right up till the end of the 18th century." He believed in the revival of the Orthodox religion in traditionally Slavic lands (see Slavic people) centered in the Tsardom of Russia.

Born in Smotrych, Podilia, Meletius was a son of the famous writer and pedagogue Herasym Smotrytsky. He received his first formal educated at the Ostroh Academy, where his father was a rector. The academy is the oldest institution of higher learning in Eastern Europe. Later, he studied at Vilnius University, a Jesuit institution, between approximately 1596 and 1600. After that, Smotrytsky traveled through Europe, continuing his education at universities in Leipzig, Wittenberg and Nuremberg.

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