Dositej Obradović

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LifeEdit

Early life and educationEdit

Dositej Obradović was born Dimitrije Obradović, probably in 1739, in the Banat village of Čakovo, in the Habsburg monarchy, now Ciacova, in present-day Romania. From an early age, he was possessed with a passion for study. Obradović grew up bilingual (in Serbian and Romanian) and learned classical Greek, Latin, modern Greek, German, English, French, Russian and Italian.<ref>The south Slav Journal / "Dositey Obradovich Circle". - London : South Slav Research & Study Centre 1.1978 - 5. ISSN 0141-6146</ref>

On 17 February 1757 he became a monk in the Serb Orthodox monastery of Hopovo, in the Srem region, and acquired the name Dositej (Dositheus).Template:Sfn He translated into Serbian many European classics, including Aesop's Fables. Having devoured the contents of the monastery library, he hungered for further learning. On 2 November 1760 he left the monastery of Hopovo, bound for Hilandar, Mount Athos.Template:Sfn

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Plaque in Clement Lane, London.

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Map of Obradović's travels at Museum of Vuk and Dositej

Further education and travelEdit

In 1761 he went to Zagreb where he studied Latin. From 1761 to 1763 he was a teacher in a Serbian school in Kninsko Polje. For a brief period, he taught at a monastery in the Bay of Kotor before he was ordained as a priest by Vasilije Petrović. After falling ill, he returned to teach in Dalmatia in the village of Golubić near Knin.Template:Sfn He then went to Corfu where he studied Greek before going to Venice and then coming back to Dalmatia where he became a teacher again, in Plavno. He enrolled at the University of Halle in 1782, where he studied philosophy.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In 1783, he transferred to the University of Leipzig and published his first work.Template:Sfn He was a student of Johann Eberhard who himself was a disciple of Christian Wolf. More than a third of his life was spent in Austria where Obradović became influenced by the ideas of Joseph II and the German Enlightenment. Additionally, he was an Anglophile and influenced by English educators, seeing England as the land of spiritual freedom and modern civilization.Template:Sfn In 1785 Obradović presented his books printed in Leipzig to the British Museum Library in London. These were the first modern Serbian books acquired by the British Museum Library.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Besides these countries, his forty-year travel journeys across Europe and Asia Minor also took him to Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Romania, France, Russia, England, and Poland.

Later life and deathEdit

At the time of the First Serbian Uprising (1804) Obradović was in Italy, where he published his pivotal poem Rise O Serbia (Vostani Serbije) in honor of Karađorđe Petrović and the insurgents. In Dositej's song, Serbia is pictured as a ‘sleeping Beauty’, asleep for centuries. The verses call upon her to wake up and give an example to her ‘sisters’, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Montenegro.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> In 1807 Obradović moved to Belgrade<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> at the invitation of Karađorđe Petrović, to become, in the newly organized government, Serbia's first minister of education.Template:Sfn In 1809 he founded Higher School, the first higher education institution in Serbia that later developed into a university. The school was located in a two-story building in Zajrek, one of the oldest parts of Belgrade. The building now serves as the Museum of Vuk and Dositej.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Obradović wrote first individual biographies and quickly the genre expanded to the form of biographical collection modelled on examples of Nepos, Suetonius, Plutarch, or Diogenes Laertius.

Obradović helped introduce to the Serbs the literature of certain western European countries.<ref>Wladimir Fischer: The Role of Dositej Obradovic in the Construction of Serbian Identities During the 19th Century. In: spacesofidentity vol. 1.3 (2001)Template:Dead link</ref> He and Vuk Karadžić, whom Obradović influenced,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> are recognized as the fathers of modern Serbian literature. Because the Serbian populace often suffered famine, Obradović also introduced potato cultivation to Serbia.

Dositej Obradović died in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1811. He was honored with a large funeral procession and buried in St Michael's Cathedral.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A monument to Obradović was errected by the Kalemegan park entrance in 1914. It was moved in 1930 to a prominent spot at the newly opened Academic Park, close to the University of Belgrade administration and governance building, where it still stands.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In popular cultureEdit

Template:Ill, a television miniseries based on the biography of Dositej Obradović and directed by Sava Mrmak, was produced in 1990 by the Serbian broadcasting service RTS.<ref>Template:Imdb title </ref><ref>Template:YouTube TV miniseries, 1 part</ref><ref>Template:YouTube TV miniseries, 2 part</ref>

WorksEdit

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Monument to Dositej Obradović in Academic Park

Slovo poučiteljno Gosp. Georg. Joakima Colikofera, Leipzig, 1774, 31 pp.
Pismo Haralampiju, 1783.
Život i priključenija D.O., Leipzig, 1783.
Sovjeti zdravago razuma, Leipzig, 1784, 119 pp.
Ezopove i pročih raznih basnotvorcev basne, Leipzig, 1788, 451 pp.
Pesme o izbavleniju Serbije, Vienna, 1789, 4 pp.
Sobranije raznih naravoučitelnih veščej, Pécs, 1793, 2 + 316 pp.
Etika ili filozofija naravnoučitelna, Venice, 1803, 160 pp.
Vostani Serbije, 1804.
Mezimac, Budim 1818, 230 + 11 pp.
Ižica, 1830
Pisma, Budapest, 1829, 126 pp.
Prvenac, Karlštat 1930, 17 + 168 pp.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Jastuk roda moga (lost), 1813

TranslationsEdit

Slovo poučitelno, 1784.
Istina i prelest, (short story), 1788.
Put u jedan dan, (short story), 1788.
Aesop's Fables
Hristoitija
Bukvica
Etika
Venac
Damon
Ingleska izrečenija

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