Metod Čepar (17 October 1985) is researcher at the Section for the History of the Slovenian Language at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language. He is a co-author and co-editor of the Dictionary of the 16th-Century Slovenian Literary Language (Vol. 1 A–D published in 2021). He is also expert for Slovak and Bulgarian language.

Research areas

• historical lexicography
• lexicology
• historical linguistics
• historical morphology

Education, academic and scientific research title

• 2017: research fellow, ZRC SAZU, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language
• 2013: PhD thesis: Praslovanski ijevski samostalniki moškega spola v slovenskem knjižnem jeziku 16. stoletja (Proto-slavic Masculine I-nouns in the 16th-Century Slovenian Literary Language), Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2009: MA: Proto-Slavic comparative linguistics – Slovak language and literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
• 2004: matura exam, Škofijska klasična gimnazija, Ljubljana

Employments, Leadership Positions and Competences

Employments:

• 2009–: Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language

Outstanding Achievements, Awards and Grants

• 2022: main editor (together with Alenka Jelovšek, Andreja Legan Ravnikar, Eva Trivunović and Mitja Trojar) of the Slovenian-German-Latin Dictionary based on a manuscript dictionary Dictionarium trilingue (1711–1712) by Hippolytus Rudolphswertensis: including paper slip material produced by Jože Stabej

• 2021: main editor and co-author of the Dictionary of the 16th-Century Slovenian Literary Language, Vol. 1: A–D; the dictionary was among the achievements chosen for the Excellent in Science 2022 prize awarded by the Slovenian Research Agency   

• 2010: corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts (BANI – bălgarskata akademija na nauki i izkustva) because of the contribution in promotion of Bulgarian culture and literature abroad