With establishment of the chair of Slavic philology in 1848, the study of Slav languages was institutionalised at Vienna University for the first time. The first full professor holding this chair was Fran Miklošič, who developed it to a Viennese Slavistic school, distinguishing itself for socio-political importance and scientific positivism. Not least, Slovenes benefited by this, because their grammar school teachers and Slavic philologists studied mostly in Vienna up to the 1st World War. However, a new big chance to institutionalise the study of Slovene (as language of one of Austrian minorities it was provided by the legislator, in 1973, to be an independent study along with other Slavic languages) hasn\u27t been taken advantage of by any head of the Institute for Slavic Philology yet.Študij slovanskih jezikov je bil na dunajski univerzi prvič institucionaliziran z ustanovitvijo stolice za slovansko filologijo v letu 1848. Prvi redni profesor na tej katedri Fran Miklošič je stolico izgradil v dunajsko slavistično šolo, ki se je odlikovala po družbenopolitični pomembnosti in znanstvenem pozitivizmu. Od tega so imeli nenazadnje korist Slovenci, katerih srednješolski učitelji in slovanski filologi so vse do 1. svetovne vojne v glavnem študirali na Dunaju. Nove velike priložnosti institucionalizacije študija slovenščine (zakonodajalec jo je kot jezik ene izmed avstrijskih manjšin leta 1973 določil za samostojno študijsko smer poleg ostalih slovanskih jezikov) pa vsakokratni za to pristojni predstojnik Inštituta za slavistiko doslej še ni izkoristil
