Dositej Obradović

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Dositej Dimitrije Obradović

Born February 17, 1742?
Čakovo, Habsburg Empire
Died 1811
Belgrade, Serbia
Nationality Serbian

Dositej (Dositheus) Dimitrije Obradović (Доситеј Обрадовић; February 17, 1742? - 1811) was a Serbian author, philosopher and linguist. As one of the most influential proponents of Serbian national and cultural Renaissance, he was advocating ideas of European Enlightenment and Rationalism.

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[edit] Life

Dositej Obradović was born Dimitrije Obradović in the village of Čakovo (now Ciacova, Timiş County, Romania) in Banat, probably in 1742. On February 17, 1757, he became a monk in the Serb Orthodox monastery of Hopovo (in Srem region) and acquired the name Dositej (Dositheus). He lived there until November 2, 1760, when he became disillusioned with monastic life.

For forty years thereafter, he traveled Europe and Asia Minor: Albania, Dalmatia, Corfu, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Romania, France, Russia, England, Italy. Finally he went to Belgrade, where he died.

Obradović helped introduce to the Serbs the learning of western Europe. He and Vuk Karadžić, whom Obradović influenced, are recognized, respectively, as the grandfather and father of Serbian literature.

Obradović had grown up bilingual (Serbian, Romanian) and learned classical Greek, Latin, modern Greek, German, English, French, Russian, Albanian and Italian. He translated into Serbian many many western European classics, including Aesop's Fables .

[edit] Works

Dositej Obradović.
Dositej Obradović.
  • Slovo poučiteljno Gosp. Georg. Joakima Colikofera, Leipzig, 1774, 31 pp.
  • Pismo Haralampiju, 1783.
  • Život i priključenija D.O., Leipzig, 1783, 1788.
  • Sovjeti zdravog razuma, Leipzig, 1784, 119 pp.
  • Ezopove i pročih raznih basnotvorcev basne, Leipzig, 1788, 451 pp.
  • Pesme o izbavleniju Serbije, Beč, 1789, 4 pp.
  • Sobranije raznih naravoučitelnih veščej, Pécs, 1793, 2 + 316 pp.
  • Etika ili filozofija naravnoučitelna, Venice, 1803, 160 pp.
  • Pesma na insurekciju Serbijanov, 1804.
  • Mezimac I Budim, 1818, 230 + 11 pp.
  • Ižica, 1830.
  • Pisma Budim, 1829, 126 pp.
  • Prvenac Karlštat, 1930, 17 + 168 pp.

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[edit] Further reading

  • Obradović, Dositej. The Life and Adventures of Dimitrije Obradović. University of California Publications in Modern Philology 39. Berkeley; Los Angeles, 1953.
  • Ćurčić, N. M. J. The Ethics of Reason in the Philosophical System of Dositej Obradovic A Study of His Contribution in This Field to the Age of Reason. London: Unwin Bros. Ltd, 1976.
  • Petar Pijanović: Život i delo Dositeja Obradovića. Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd 2000.
  • Wladimir Fischer: Creating a National Hero: The Changing Symbolics of Dositej Obradović. In: Identität - Kultur - Raum. Turia + Kant, Wien 2001.
  • Fischer, Wladimir [2007]. Dositej Obradović als bürgerlicher Kulturheld. Zur Formierung eines serbischen bürgerlichen Selbstbildes durch literarische Kommunikation 1783–1845, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Max Demeter Peyfuss and Maria Stassinopoulou (eds.), Studien zur Geschichte Südosteuropas 16, Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 9783631542149. 

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