Avram Mrazović (Serbian: Аврам Мразовић;

Sombor Sombor ( sr-Cyrl, Сомбор, ; ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the West Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city has a total population of 41,814 (), while its adminis ...

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, 12 March 1756 – Sombor, 20 February 1826) was a Serbian

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pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

, aristocrat and Senator of the Free Royal City of Sombor, part of the

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of the Austrian Empire. He was the first to institutionalize a modern teacher training program in 1778 which eventually became a teachers' college in Sombor.

Biography

Avram Mrazović was the son of Reverend and Mr. Georgije Mrazović, parish priest of the

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of Saint John the Baptist in Sombor. Mrazović is known in literary annals as a Serbian education reformer who lived and worked in the Habsburg Empire in Serb and Romanian territories of today's

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and Romanian Banat at the same time as Teodor Janković Mirijevski and Stefan Vujanovski. He is the first director of the Serb National Primary School Commission after being named to the post by his mentor, Teodor Janković-Mirijevski. He also founded ''Norma'' ( Normal school), a teacher training college in

in 1778 before another school was opened in 1812 in

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called ''Regium Pedagogium Nationis Illiricae'' (''Preparandium'' in Latin or ''Preparadija'' in Serbian) which eventually was relocated back to Sombor in 1816. Mrazović wrote and published ''Rukovodstvo k slavenstej grammatice: vo upotreblenik slaveno-serbskih narodnyh ucilisc'' (a Serbian grammar with correct syntax) in Vienna in 1794 for Serbian schools. He credited Meletius Smotrytsky's 1619 work as his inspiration. The first book on logic in the Serbian language was written by Nikola Šimić, Avram Mrazović's friend, and was published in Budapest in two volumes, entitled "Logic" (Vol. I, 1808; Vol. II, 1809). Ten years later, Mrazović wrote the second book on logic in Serbian in a similar manner, entitled "Logic, or Reasoning", completed in 1826, the year he died. The book was not published. Aside from Pavle Julinac, remembered as the first to translate from French, other translators of the period were

Gligorije Trlajić Gligorije Trlajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Глигорије Трлајић; Mol, Bačka, Hapsburg Monarchy, 25 January 1766 – Harkov, then part of Imperial Russia, 28 September 1811) was a Serbian writer, poet, polyglot and professor of law at t ...

, Nikola Lazarević,

Atanasije Stojković Atanasije Stojković ( sr-Cyrl, Атанасије Стојковић, ; 20 September 1773 – 25 September 1832) was a Serbian, Austrian and Russian writer, pedagogue, scholar, physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He is considered the founde ...

, and Avram Mrazović. Mrazović translated the French work of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, and the Latin of

Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he i ...

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Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Rome, ancient Roman poet of the Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Augustan period. He composed three of the most fa ...

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). Th ...

, and the Greek of

Aristotle Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...

Works

Poucitelni Magazin 1 - 1787 - start of chapter Beauty and the Beast

* ''Rukovodstvo k slavenstej grammatice: vo upotreblenik slaveno-serbskih narodnyh ucilisc'' (1794) * ''Celovekomerzosti I raskajaniju'' (1808) * ''Epistolarum de Ponto livri V'' (Buda, 1818) * ''Rukovodstvo k slavenskomu krasnoreciju vo upotreblenik ljubiteleij slavenskago jezyka izdano Avraamom ot Mrazovic'' (1821) * ''Logic'', or Reasoning, completed in 1826, but the book was never published.

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