Jevta Savić Čotrić ( sr-cyrl, Јевта Савић Чотрић; – 1821) was a Serbian politician and diplomat during the

First Serbian Uprising The First Serbian Uprising (; sr-Cyrl, Први српски устанак; ) was an uprising of Serbs in Orašac (Aranđelovac), Orašac against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 1804 to 7 October 1813. The uprising began as a local revolt ...

and

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who served as a representative of the Zvornik nahiyah in the

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in 1805. He was the older cousin of

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 ...

and with him, Vuk Karadžić "began to study books".

Biography

Jevta Savić Čotrić was an educated and respected man even before the uprising. With Anta Bogićević, and with

Karađorđe Đorđe Petrović (; ; – ), known by the sobriquet Karađorđe (; ), was a Serbian revolutionary leader who led a struggle against the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising. He held the title of Grand Vožd of Serbia from 14 ...

's approval, he concluded a well-known contract with Mehmed-pasha Vidajić. In 1807 he was elected a member of the Governing Council in Belgrade.

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opened the nucleus of what eventually became the

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(''Velika škola'') in the fledgling premises of his big house. In 1812, he was appointed elder of

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and Brza Palanka. He unsuccessfully negotiated peace with the Turks in 1813. In 1814, he "appeared before the Austrian emperor in Vienna with Archbishop

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and prayed that any relief would be given to the people in Serbia." He returned to Serbia in 1815 and settled in

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, where he died in 1821. He was buried in the family tomb at the Šabac cemetery. Vuk Karadžić wrote in his memoirs that Jevta was a far more accomplished writer than some of his contemporaries in the Governing Council.

Sources

* Milan Đ. Milićević, ''Pomenik znamenitih ljudi u srpskog narodu novijega doba,'' Vol 1 (Belgrade, 1888) * Milan Đ. Milićević,''Kneževina Srbija'' (Belgrade, 1878) *

Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka (1793 – 15 January 1869) was a Serbian participant in the First Serbian Uprising who later became a state adviser (from 1842), a diplomatic representative of Serbia to Constantinople (from 1846 to 1847), as well as th ...

, ''Istorija srpskog ustanka'' (Belgrade, 1898) * Konstantin N. Nenadović, ''Život i dela velikog Đorđa Petrovića Kara Đorđa Vrhovnog Vožda...'' (Vienna, 1884) * Record of

Petrović, Belgrade 1848; * Record protocol of the letter priest

Matija Nenadović Matija Nenadović ( sr-cyrl, Матија Ненадовић, or Mateja Nenadović sr-cyr, Матеја Ненадовић; 26 February 1777 – 11 December 1854), also known as Prota Mateja, was a Serbian archpriest, writer, and politician wh ...

on the war along the Drina in 1811, 1812, and 1813, Belgrade 1861; * Memoirs of Matija Nenadović, Belgrade 1867; * I. Stojšić, ''Jedna zaboravljena porodica,'' ''Naša nahija'' (almanah), Belgrade, 1926.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Čotrić, Jevta Savić 1760s births 1821 deaths People from the Ottoman Empire