Đorđe Rajković (

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

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, 1825 - Novi Sad,

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, 28 July 1886) was a Serbian writer, teacher, and editor of numerous journals and periodicals. He collected and preserved old archives and manuscripts. He collaborated with

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 moder ...

on epic poems he collected throughout

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among the Serbian population. He was a member of Matica Srpska.

Biography

In 1844, at the age of nineteen, he had his first poem ''Jed I med'' published, followed by ''Pesme''. All the documents published by Đorđe Rajković, particularly the ones he discovered in the archives of Upper Karlovci eparchy and in the bishop's archives at Plaški, tie in with the broader endeavors of the

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and all our Serbian church councils to define legally the Serbian people in the 18th century

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. The position according to Serbian and official Austrian interpretation was based on the records found in the archives.

Works

* ''Izabrani spisi: biografije književnika,'' Volume 1 * ''Faksimile od rukopisa znameniti Srba: Skupio,'' Volume 1 * ''Srpske narodne pesme iz Slavonije''

References

{{authority control 1820s births 1886 deaths Writers from Novi Sad Serbian male journalists Serbian male poets Poets from the Austrian Empire