Jovan Stefanović Vilovski (1821-1902) was one of the early Serbian scientist

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who studied the waters in the

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, situated along the

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rivers, the

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and the

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. He was a general staff major in the

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. During the 1848 Revolution, he participated on the side of the Conservative wing around Patriarch

Josif Rajačić Josif Rajačić ( sr-Cyrl, Јосиф Рајачић; 20 July 1785 – 1 December 1861), also known as Josif Rajačić-Brinski, was a metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci, Serbian Patriarch, administrator of Vojvodina, and baron. Life Rajačić was b ...

. He also fought at the

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. In 1865 he retired and moved from Srem to

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where he then began to pursue hydrology. He authored 60 important papers, mainly on the amelioration and regulation of the rivers

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and the

. He left an extensive memoir in manuscript form. His work "From the Life of an Officer ..." (Zemun, 1863), written in the Slavoserbian alphabet, served as one of the sources for the Dictionary of Serbo-Croatian Literary and Folk Language in an edition of the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stefanovic Vilovski, Jovan Hydrologists Scientists from the Austrian Empire Scientists from Austria-Hungary 1821 births 1902 deaths