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Atanasije Dimitrijević Sekereš
Atanasije Dimitrijević Sekereš or Athanasius Demetrovich Szekeres (18 January 1738, in Győr, today's Hungary – 30 April 1794, in Vienna, Austria) was a Serbian jurist, writer, and first Serbian Orthodox priest and later Uniate cleric, and Imperial-Royal Illyrian Court Deputation Councilor and censor of all Serbian, Romanian, Greek and Armenian books printed in the Habsburg monarchy. A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he held the office of censor of the Illyrian Deputation for two decades and was responsible for printing and reprinting hundreds of books during the reigns of Maria Theresa, Joseph II, Leopold II, and Francis II. Biography He was born in Györ on the 18 of January 1738 and baptized in the Serbian Orthodox Church. His father, a small peasant-farmer, died when Atanasije was in his teens. He was brought up to farm work, but he cultivated all his leisure in reading, and when he was seventeen entered the University of Vienna Law School where he picked up Latin and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Győr
Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names of European cities in different languages: E-H#G, names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia region, and – halfway between Budapest and Vienna – situated on one of the important roads of Central Europe. It is the sixth largest city in Hungary, and one of its seven main regional centres. The city has City with county rights, county rights. History The area along the Danube River has been inhabited by varying cultures since ancient times. The first large settlement dates back to the 5th century BCE; the inhabitants were Celts. They called the town ''Ara Bona'' "Good altar", later contracted to ''Arrabona'', a name which was used until the eighth century. Its shortened form is still used as the German (''Raab'') and Slovak (''Ráb'') names of the city. Roman merchants moved to Arrabona during the 1st century BCE. Around 10 CE, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primer (textbook)
A primer (in this sense usually pronounced , sometimes , usually the latter in modern British English) is a first textbook for teaching of reading, such as an alphabet book or basal reader. The word also is used more broadly to refer to any book that presents the most basic elements of any subject. Secular primer textbooks developed out of medieval religious primer prayer books and educationally-oriented revisions of these devotionals proliferated during the English Reformation. The Latin ''Enschedé Abecedarium'' of the late 15th century, translated into English as the ''Salisbury Prymer'', has been identified as the earliest example of a printed primer. It presented the alphabet and several Catholic prayers. '' |
Damjan Kaulić
Damjan Stefanović Kaulić also spelled the Romanian way Damjan Kaulici ( Arad, Habsburg monarchy, 1760 – Novi Sad, Habsburg Monarchy, 1810) was a Serbian publisher, bookseller and printer. He was the only bookseller in Novi Sad until 1790 and the appearance of Emanuilo Janković and significantly contributed to the cultural life of the city and the culture of the Serbian people. Damjan Kaulić is best remembered when he and Emanuilo Janković filed, independently of each other, a request for the establishment of a Serbian printing house in the city of Novi Sad, however, they were both rejected by the Habsburg authorities in 1790. Biography He was born in Arad in 1760. He studied bookbinding in Sremski Karlovci, and after that, he worked in Szeged, Buda, Požun and Vienna. After arriving in Novi Sad, he opened a bookbinding shop that would later become a bookstore and printing house. His descendants, starting with his son Constantine, and through his heirs, John, Basil a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuilo Janković
Emanuilo Janković ( sr-cyr, Емануило Јанковић; 1758–1792) was a Serbian writer, dramatist, philosopher, translator, editor and scientist. He was not only a language reformer but also an innovator in the use of Serbian Cyrillic Graphemes. Also, his research and studies of the detailed chemistry, mineralogy, and isotopic compositions of meteorites provide invaluable clues to the range of chemical and physical processing and timing of events in the solar nebula. Life Janković was born in 1758 to a Serbian family in Neusatz Stadt (modern Novi Sad), then part of the Military Frontier of the Habsburg monarchy (now Serbia). In 1790 he and Damjan Kaulić both independently petitioned for a Serbian printing house in Novi Sad, but were rejected by the Austrian government. He wrote the first modern Serbian treatise on hygiene. Legacy Emanuilo Janković died in 1792 in Subotica. Ruđer Bošković, Dositej Obradović and Atanasije Stojković were his contemporaries. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Von Novaković
Stefan von Novaković (Osijek, Habsburg monarchy, c. 1740 – Osijek, Habsburg Monarchy, 1826) was a Serbian writer and publisher of Serbian books in Vienna and patron of Serbian literature. Biography Novaković, a well-educated lawyer who lived and worked in Sremski Karlovci, was a court secretary to Metropolitan Mojsije Putnik before becoming a court agent, nominated by the Emperor to the highest organ of the Hungarian administration, the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna. He was ennobled in 1791. In 1770, in response to repeated requests by Metropolitan Stevan Stratimirović of Sremski Karlovci for a Serbian printing press, authorities finally granted monopoly rights for printing of Serbian/Cyrillic books to a Viennese printer, Josef von Kurzböck. When Kurzböck died, von Novaković, at the instigation of Metropolitan Stefan (Stratimirović), bought from Kurzböck's widow Katharina the entire estate, including the former Serbian court printing house, the monopoly rights an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avram Mrazović
Avram Mrazović (Serbian: Аврам Мразовић; Sombor, Habsburg monarchy, 12 March 1756 – Sombor, 20 February 1826) was a Serbian writer, translator, pedagogue, aristocrat and Senator of the Free Royal City of Sombor, part of the Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire. He was the first to institutionalize a modern teacher training program in 1778 which eventually became a teachers' college in Sombor. Biography Avram Mrazović was the son of Reverend and Mr. Georgije Mrazović, parish priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint John the Baptist in Sombor. Mrazović is known in literary annals as a Serbian education reformer who lived and worked in the Habsburg Empire in Serb and Romanian territories of today's Serbian Vojvodina and Romanian Banat at the same time as Teodor Janković Mirijevski and Stefan Vujanovski. He is the first director of the Serb National Primary School Commission after being named to the post by his mentor, Teodor Janković-Mirijevski. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Rajić
Jovan Rajić ( sr-cyr, Јован Рајић; September 21, 1726 – December 22, 1801) was a Serbian writer, historian, theologian, and pedagogue, considered one of the greatest Serbian academics of the 18th century. He was one of the most notable representatives of Serbian Baroque literature along with Zaharije Orfelin, Pavle Julinac, Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš, Simeon Končarević, Simeon Piščević, and others (although he worked in the first half of 18th century, as Baroque trends in Serbian literature emerged in the late 17th century). Rajić was the forerunner to modern Serbian historiography, and has been compared to the importance of Nikolay Karamzin to Russian historiography. Notable works *''Pesni različnina gospodskih prazniki'' (Vienna, 1790) *''Kant o vospominaniju smrti'', cantata *''Boj zmaja s orlovi'', (''The Battle between Dragon and Eagles'') epic poem *''Istorija raznih slovenskih narodov, najpače Bolgar, Horvatov i Serbov'' (''The History of Vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by population within city limits, seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center in Eastern Europe. It is home to many High tech, high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and historical landmarks. The city has an extensive system of Transport in Kyiv, public transport and infrastructure, including the Kyiv Metro. The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders. During History of Kyiv, its history, Kyiv, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of prominence and obscurity. The city probably existed as a commercial center as early as the 5th century. A Slavs, Slavic settlement on the great trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodor Janković Mirijevski
Teodor is a masculine given name. In English, it is a cognate of Theodore. Notable people with the name include: *Teodor Muzaka III, Albanian nobleman who was born in 1393. * Teodor Andrault de Langeron (19th century), President of Warsaw * Teodor Andrzej Potocki (1664-1738), Polish nobleman * Teodor Anghelini (born 1954), retired Romanian football player and coach * Teodor Anioła (1925-1993), Polish footballer * Teodor Atanasov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer * Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938), Polish painter * Teodor Bujnicki (1907-1944), Polish poet * Teodor Calmășul (18th century), Romanian boyar * Teodor Filipović (1778-1807), Serbian lawyer * Teodor Frunzeti (born 1955), Romanian Land Forces general * Teodor Ilić Češljar (1746-1793), Serbian painter * Teodor Ilincăi (born 1983), Romanian opera tenor * Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski (1704-1768), bishop of Poznań * Teodor Keko (1958-2002), Albanian writer * Teodor Koskenniemi (1887-1965), Finnish athlete * Teodor Kraču ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Ignaz Von Felbiger
Johann Ignaz von Felbiger or John Felbinger (1724–1788) was a minister in the Prussian government and Austrian school reformer, pedagogical writer, and Canon Regular, born January 6, 1724, at Gross-Glogau in Silesia. History Johann Ignaz von Felbiger was the son of a postmaster, who had been ennobled by Emperor Charles VI. The death of his parents constrained him, after studying theology at the University of Breslau, to accept (1744) the position of teacher in a private family. In 1746 he joined the Order of Canons Regular of St. Augustine at Sagan in Silesia (now Żagań, Poland), was ordained a priest in 1748, and ten years later became abbot of the monastery of Sagan. Noting the sad condition of the local Catholic schools, he strove to improve them by publishing his first school-ordinance in 1761. During the private journey to Berlin, in 1762, he was favourably impressed with Johann Julius Hecker's Realschule and Hähn's method of instructing by initials and tables (Literal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam František Kollár
Adam František Kollár de Keresztén (german: Adam Franz Kollar von Keresztén, hu, kereszténi Kollár Ádám Ferenc; 1718–1783) was a Slovak jurist, Imperial-Royal Court Councillor and Chief Imperial-Royal Librarian, a member of Natio Hungarica in the Kingdom of Hungary, a historian, ethnologist, an influential advocate of Empress Maria Theresa's Enlightened and centralist policies. His advancement of Maria Theresa's status in the Kingdom of Hungary as its apostolic ruler in 1772 was used as an argument in support of the subsequent Habsburg annexations of Galicia and Dalmatia. Kollár is also credited with coining the term ''ethnology'' and providing its first definition in 1783. Some authors see him as one of the earliest pro-Slovak, pro-Slavic, and pan-Slavic activists in the Habsburg monarchy. Life Dates Kollár was born to the family of a lower nobleman probably during the week before the recorded date of his baptism on Sunday, 17 April 1718,Ján Tibenský, ''Slove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vićentije Jovanović Vidak
Vićentije Jovanović Vidak (Sremski Karlovci, Habsburg monarchy, 10 March 1730 - Dalj, 18 February 1780) was the Metropolitan of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci from 1774 to 1780. Biography He was born in Sremski Karlovci. In 1745, he was made deacon of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci, and in 1749 he settled down in the Rakovac Monastery. After going through the hierarchal ranks, he was elected archimandrite. In 1757, he was appointed an administrator of the Eparchy of Pakrac, and two years later he was elected as the Bishop of Temisvar. As the highest-ranking cleric, he helped Atanasije Dimitrijević Sekereš, Dositej Obradović, Teodor Janković Mirijevski, Stefan Vujanovski, Avram Mrazović and many other scholars in their educational reforms at the time. He was elected Metropolitan in 1774 at a time when education reforms in the Habsburg State were beginning to take place. The preparation and implementation of reforms were conducted by Adam František Kollár, the presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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