Adam František Kollár
Adam František Kollár de Keresztén (, ; 1718–1783) was a
Slovak jurist, Imperial-Royal Court Councillor 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.
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