Begovići
Begovići is a village in central Croatia, in the Town of Petrinja
Petrinja () is a town in central Croatia near Sisak in the historic region of Banovina. It is administratively located in Sisak-Moslavina County.
On December 29, 2020, the tow ...
na Baniji,
Austrian Empire
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, 1 December 1821 -
Karlovac
Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. According to the 2011 census, its population was 55,705.
Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located on the Zagreb- Rijeka highway and railway line, south-west of Zagre ...
,
Austria-Hungary
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, 20 April 1895) was a priest, religious teacher, poet and
historian
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Plaški
Plaški ( sr-Cyrl, Плашки) is a village and a municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. It is part of Lika.
Geography
Plaški is situated in the lower part of the Ogulin-Plaški valley. Together with Gorski kotar and Lika, the Ogulin-Pla ...
, where he was trained as a teacher at the Episcopal Clerical College. He was a teacher at the Serbian primary school in Kostajnica in 1842 and 1843. He was ordained a
deacon
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in 1844, and the following year a priest. He was a parish priest in
Petrinja
Petrinja () is a town in central Croatia near Sisak in the historic region of Banovina. It is administratively located in Sisak-Moslavina County.
On December 29, 2020, the town was hit by a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 , causing ...
, then in Perna (1857), and from 2 April 1862 to 28 April 1895 in the
Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches.
The majori ...
of St. Nicholas in
Karlovac
Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. According to the 2011 census, its population was 55,705.
Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located on the Zagreb- Rijeka highway and railway line, south-west of Zagre ...
. He taught religious education in Karlovac schools. He was also the spiritual teacher of
Busije
Busije ( Serbian Cyrillic: Бусије)
is a suburban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.
Location
Busije is a sub-neighborhood of Ugrinovci, the only separate settlement in th ...
, a suburb of
Belgrade
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, was named after Nikola Begović.
Political action
During his service in Perna (1856-1862), he was elected a Krajina representative in the
Croatian Parliament
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in 1861. He was often arrested in
Zagreb
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for his appearances and activities.Дневник Сабора троједине краљевине Далмације, Хрватске и Славоније год.1861, Загреб 1862.
Criticism
Manojlo Grbić criticizes Nikola Begović in the 3rd book "Karlovac Bishopric" (pp. 41–44). According to him, Begović slandered Bishop Mušicki for ordering the Orthodox to celebrate the Hungarian King St. Stephen. He reproached Begović for politically flattering
Vienna
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and commemorating Roman Catholics as well, which he considered an inadmissible scandal in the Orthodox Church.
Works
* "Biblical History of the Old and New Testaments and Apostolic Works Describing Palestine from Christ to Our Times", Zagreb 1852.
* "Serbian Catechisms based on the Synodal Catechism", Belgrade 1860.
* "Serbian sermons composed and spoken by Nikola Begović", Belgrade 1870.
* "History of the Serbian Church, attached to young Serbia", Novi Sad 1874; second edition: 1877.
* "Liturgy for Serbian schools and people", Biograd 1885.
* "Serbian folk songs from Lika and Banija", Zagreb 1885.
* "Life and customs of Serb border guards", Zagreb 1887.
Literature
* Branko Krnjajić: "Lexicon of the Banija Serbs," Belgrade; and "Native Association of Banija, Descendants, and Friends of Banija" (2019) ISBN 978-86-81558-01-0.
* Rudolf Strohal: "The city of Karlovac is described and outlined," Karlovac (1906)
Sources
Nikola Begović Nikola Begović - srpski polihistor;
* "Serbian Diary",
Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...
(1857);
* Orthodoxy, newspaper of the Serbian Patriarchate, Belgrade, number 1037;
* Dan Mrkić: "Nikola Tesla, European Years,"
Belgrade
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(2004);
Gazette of the City of Belgrade “02/2008;
* Diary of the Parliament of the Triune Kingdom of Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia in 1861,
Zagreb
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