Society of Serbian Literature ( sr, Дружтво србске словесности, ДСС, Družtvo srbske slovesnosti, DSS), founded in 19 November

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and confirmed by the seal and signature of prince Mihailo Obrenović.

Establishment

The founders were Jovan Sterija Popović and

Atanasije Nikolić Atanasije Nikolić ( Serbian: ; Bački Brestovac, Bačka, 18 January 1803 — Belgrade, 28 July 1882) was a Serbian teacher and writer, the first mathematics professor and rector at the Lyceum in Kragujevac. He wrote the first undergraduate text ...

. The first members, apart from them, were Dimitrije Isailović, Stefan Marković,

Jovan Stejić Jovan Stejić (Stari Arad County (former), Arad, Habsburg monarchy, 1803 – Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 23 November 1853) was a Serbian writer, philologist, critic of Vuk Karadžić's reform and medical doctor. Biography Jovan Stejić is t ...

, Dimitrije P. Tirol,

Sima Milutinović Sarajlija Simeon "Sima" Milutinović "Sarajlija" ( sr-cyr, Симеон "Сима" Милутиновић "Сарајлија", ; 3 October 1791 – 30 December 1847) was a poet, hajduk, translator, historian and adventurer. Literary critic Jovan Skerlić ...

and Isidor Stojanović and later Ignjat Vjekoslav Brlić. The task of the society was to spread the sciences in

Serbian language Serbian (, ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and Kos ...

and to improve the Serbian vernacular. The president of the Association by position was Minister of Education. Društvo_srpske_slovesnosti_Constitution

Right at the beginning, the Society tried to solve the then still unresolved issue of spelling and adopted an alphabet of 35 letters. The work was interrupted in August

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, due to riots in the country, and resumed only in August

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. Since then, the Society has been working on the "Linguistic Dictionary" and school textbooks, but soon stopped working on the dictionary, especially because of the protest

Vuk Karadžić Vuk Stefanović Karadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Стефановић Караџић, ; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS)7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the mode ...

. After that, the Society worked on collecting historical data and articles, reviewed various works of its members, gave them to members to make a school book. In "Novine Srbskim" of

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, the work program of the Society and its newsletter was published. The magazine "Glasnik Drustva Srpske" slovenosti started to be published in 1847. Within the Gazette, there is a space for: Serbian history and antiquities, geography, state writing (statistics) and Serbian natural history, and works in the field of other sciences. From the second issue, Glasnik regularly published sources, and from the fifth 1855 he began to follow domestic and later foreign publications. During its existence, in the period 1847 - 1863 the Society published 17 issues of the Herald. The Society of Serbian Literature has published several books and cooperated in lifting the ban on Vuk's spelling. Although as early as 1848 it was requested to abandon the spelling imposed by the provision from 1832, and the editorial board of the newspaper kept the old one, the Society did not do much to improve the language. He started publishing the first texts written in Vuk's language and spelling of

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also

* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

, translator, linguistic historian and lexicographer Đuro Daničić. The most significant works published in the Gazette are ''Serbian Historical Monuments of the Venetian Archive'', which was prepared by Janko Šafarik in the period

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as well as the chrysostom of Emperor Stefan Dušan of

Monastery of the Holy Archangel The Monastery of the Holy Archangels ( sr, Манастир Светих Архангела, Manastir Svetih Arhangela; al, Manastiri i Arkangjelit të Shenjtë) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Prizren, Kosovo. The monastery was foun ...

near

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and published in 1862.

Termination

Liberals tried to use the Society of Serbian Literature for their theoretical liberalism. The Society on 26 January 1864 had its annual meeting at which they proposed

Garibaldi Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as ''Gioxeppe Gaibado''. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as ''Jousé'' or ''Josep''. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patr ...

and Hercez as new members of the Society. 27 January 1864 the Society of Serbian Literature was abolished by Prince Michael. 29 July 1864 was renewed under the name

Serbian learned society The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

References

Sources

* * * * {{cite book , last1=Fostikov , first1=Aleksandra , title=Bibliografija objavljenih istorijskih izvora u Glasniku DSS-a odnosnu SUD-a (1846-1864/65-1892) , date=1999 , publisher=Istorijski institut Beograd

External links

Chronology of the Society of Serbian Literature 1841-1864
Principality of Serbia Scientific societies based in Serbia Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts