Lazar Bojić (Serbian: Лазар Бојић) (1791–1859) was a Serbian writer and a priest. Lazar was a

Serbian Orthodox priest The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church#Constit ...

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from 1838 to 1852, and engaged in literature (published a book in 1815). His 1815 work ''Pamjatnik mužem u slaveno-serbskom knižestvu slavnym'' 'Pantheon of renowned figures of the Slavic-Serb literature'' comprising four volumes of biographies of Serbian writers and poets, is considered a significant work in Serbian literary studies. He is also remembered as the first Serbian bibliographer. Lazar Bojić was a student of the

Seminary in Sremski Karlovci Clerical High School of Saint Arsenije ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Богословија Свети Арсеније Сремац, Bogoslovija Sveti Arsenije Sremac) is the oldest Serbian seminary, a clerical Grande école. It is a college following the Fren ...

, where he attended his final years of schooling in 1812 and 1813, listening to lectures on Serbian literature by

Lukijan Mušicki Lukijan Mušicki ( sr-cyr, Лукијан Мушицки, ; 27 January 1777 – 15 March 1837) was a Serbian Orthodox bishop, writer and poet. From 1828 he was bishop of Karlovac, now in Croatia. References Further reading * * * Jovan Sk ...

, which he eventually incorporated into his broad survey of writers and poets of the

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(See:

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). He was inspired by

Dositej Obradović Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић, ; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist and the first minister of education of Se ...

's ''Etika'';

Pavle Solarić Pavle Solarić (7 August 1779 – 18 January 1821) was a Serbian linguist, geographer, archaeologist, poet, bibliographer and man of letters. He was one of Dositej Obradović's early students and an ardent disciple. Biography Solarić was born in ...

's ''Pomesinak knjizeski'' (Literary Compendium); and correspondences between Lukijan Mušicki and

Jernej Kopitar Jernej Kopitar, also known as Bartholomeus Kopitar (21 August 1780 – 11 August 1844), was a Slovene linguist and philologist working in Vienna. He also worked as the Imperial censor for Slovene literature in Vienna. He is perhaps best known ...

and some of Mušicki's manuscripts and notes. He brought to light most of the 18th century Serbian poets, writers, painters of the

, namely contemporaries of

and also his disciples. He also criticized

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 ...

because Bojić believed that Serbo-Slavonic had a place side-by-side with the new language reform.

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