Gavrilo Vitković ( sr-Cyrl, Гаврило Витковић; January 28, 1829 – July 25, 1902) was an engineer, historian, professor and collector of old manuscripts. He was a member of the

Serbian Learned Society The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS). The Academy's membership has included Nobel laureates Ivo ...

Biography

After graduating from the University of Budapest, Vitković worked as an engineer in

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and

Šabac Šabac ( sr-Cyrl, Шабац, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river ...

. Later, he taught engineering in secondary schools in

Kragujevac Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the List of cities in Serbia, fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Se ...

and

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. And in his spare time he collected original documents and manuscripts mostly about 18th- and 19th- century people from Serbia and granted his collection to the

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References

External links

Biography on the website of SANU
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vitkovic, Gavrilo 1829 births 19th-century Serbian historians Emigrants from the Austrian Empire Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 1902 deaths