Milan Savić ( sr, Милан Савић german: Emil Szavitz; 1845 in Turska Kanjiža,

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– 21 February 1930 in Belgrade,

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) was a Serbian

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, historian,

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and

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's "Faust" in Serbian. Savić was a president of

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(1896–1911). He was the father of

Anica Savić Rebac Anica Savić-Rebac ( sr-Cyrl, Аница Савић-Ребац; 4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade. She wrote a number of essays and books about Njego ...

. His generation was fighting the Turks in legitimate warfare for independence, but the cultivators of Serb literature have not been idle either. He was one among the former and the latter. A graduate from the University of Vienna's prestigious School of Medicine in 1867 and philosophy and medicine in Leipzig in 1876 with exceptional

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honours. In 1876, he obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Leipzig. Енциклопедија Новог Сада. Књига 24, Род-Сер. Нови Сад: Новосадски клуб "Добра вест". 2004. стр. 143—145. He lends his services as a medical doctor in the Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78) and the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. Among the institutions of national culture, the stage had received praiseworthy attention, that classical dramatic work of the West is acted in the Serbian idiom on the stages of Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Kragujevac. Not only Schiller's "Mary Stuart" and "Don Carlos", Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Othello", but Goethe's "Faust" in the Serb theatre of Novi Sad was produced. The translator, in the metre of the original, was from the pen of this Serbian physician and literary critic.

Works

* ''Istorija Bugarskog naroda'' (Novi Sad, 1878) * ''Laza Kostić'' (1929) * ''Iz srpske književnosti: slike I rasprave'' (1898) * ''Razni putevi'' (1885) * ''Iz prošlih dana'' (1902) * ''Udovina'' (in verse; 1889) * ''U Fruškoj gori'' (1890)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Savic, Milan 1845 births 1930 deaths Serbian writers 19th-century Serbian people 20th-century Serbian people People from Novi Kneževac Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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