Avram Mrazović (Serbian: Аврам Мразовић;

Sombor Sombor ( sr-Cyrl, Сомбор, ; hu, Zombor; rue, Зомбор, Zombor) is a city and the administrative center of the West Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city has a total population of 47,623 (), while ...

, Habsburg monarchy, 12 March 1756 – Sombor, 20 February 1826) was a Serbian

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, aristocrat and Senator of the Free Royal City of Sombor, part of the

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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

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in Serb and Romanian territories of today's

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and

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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 also founded ''Norma'' (

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), a teacher training college in

in 1778 before another school was opened in 1812 in Szentendre called ''Regium Pedagogium Nationis Illiricae'' (''Preparandium'' in Latin or ''Preparadija'' in Serbian) which eventually was relocated back to Sombor in 1816. Mrazović wrote and published ''Rukovodstvo k slavenstej grammatice: vo upotreblenik slaveno-serbskih narodnyh ucilisc'' (a Serbian grammar with correct syntax) in Vienna in 1794 for Serbian schools. He credited

Meletius Smotrytsky Meletius Smotrytsky ( uk, Мелетій Смотрицький, translit=Meletii Smotrytskyi; be, Мялецій Сматрыцкі, translit=Mialiecij Smatrycki; russian: Мелетий Смотрицкий, translit=Meletiy Smotritsky; pl, M ...

's 1619 work as his inspiration. The first book on logic in the Serbian language was written by Nikola Šimić, Avram Mrazović's friend, and was published in Budapest in two volumes, entitled "Logic" (Vol. I, 1808; Vol. II, 1809). Ten years later, Mrazović wrote the second book on logic in Serbian in a similar manner, entitled "Logic, or Reasoning", completed in 1826, the year he died. The book was not published. Aside from Pavle Julinac, remembered as the first to translate from French, other translators of the period were

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, Nikola Lazarević,

Atanasije Stojković Atanasije Stojković (September 20, 1773 in Ruma, Austrian Empire – September 25, 1832 in Kharkov, Imperial Russia) was a Serbian, Austrian and Russian writer, pedagogue, scholar, physicist, mathematician and astronomer of Serb origin. He is con ...

, and Avram Mrazović. Mrazović translated the French work of

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, and the Latin of

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, Horace, and the Greek of

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Works

Poucitelni Magazin 1 - 1787 - start of chapter Beauty and the Beast

* ''Rukovodstvo k slavenstej grammatice: vo upotreblenik slaveno-serbskih narodnyh ucilisc'' (1794) * ''Celovekomerzosti I raskajaniju'' (1808) * ''Epistolarum de Ponto livri V'' (Buda, 1818) * ''Rukovodstvo k slavenskomu krasnoreciju vo upotreblenik ljubiteleij slavenskago jezyka izdano Avraamom ot Mrazovic'' (1821) * ''Logic'', or Reasoning, completed in 1826, but the book was never published.

References

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