 Murko was trained in the positivistic style of philology.He published several scientific works in the field of ethnology, cultural and literary history.Influenced by the historian Karl Lamprecht, Murko published the book "Geschichte der aeltern slawischen Literaturen" ("History of Ancient Slavic Literatures", Leipzig, 1908), in which he presented the older Slavic literatures as a reflection of their collective cultural and social life of those people.