Milan Savić ( ; 1845 in
Turska Kanjiža,
Austrian Empire
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– 21 February 1930 in Belgrade,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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) was a Serbian
polymath
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:
physician writer
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, historian,
philosopher
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,
medical doctor
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,
geographer
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,
literary critic
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and
translator
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of
Goethe
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's "Faust" in Serbian. Savić was a president of
Matica srpska
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(1896–1911).
Biography
His generation was fighting the Turks for independence, but the cultivators of Serb literature have not been idle either. He was one among the former and the latter. A graduate from the University of Vienna's prestigious School of Medicine in 1867 and philosophy and medicine in Leipzig in 1876 with exceptional
Rigorosum honours. In 1876, he obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Leipzig.
[ Енциклопедија Новог Сада. Књига 24, Род-Сер. Нови Сад: Новосадски клуб "Добра вест". 2004. стр. 143—145.] He lends his services as a medical doctor in the
Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78) and the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. Among the institutions of national culture, the stage had received praiseworthy attention, that classical dramatic work of the West is acted in the Serbian idiom on the stages of Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Kragujevac. Not only Schiller's "Mary Stuart" and "Don Carlos", Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Othello", but Goethe's "Faust" in the Serb theatre of Novi Sad was produced. The translator, in the metre of the original, was from the pen of this Serbian physician and literary critic.
He was the father of
Anica Savić Rebac
Anica Savić-Rebac ( sr-Cyrl, Аница Савић-Ребац; 4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade. She wrote a number of essays and books about Njego ...
.
Works
* ''Istorija Bugarskog naroda'' (Novi Sad, 1878)
* ''Laza Kostić'' (1929)
* ''Iz srpske književnosti: slike I rasprave'' (1898)
* ''Razni putevi'' (1885)
* ''Iz prošlih dana'' (1902)
* ''Udovina'' (in verse; 1889)
* ''U Fruškoj gori'' (1890)
See also
*
Laza Lazarević
Lazar "Laza" Lazarević ( sr-cyr, Лазаp Лаза Лазаревић, 13 May 1851 – 10 January 1891) was a Serbian writer, psychiatrist, and neurologist.
Medical career
Lazarević was born in Šabac in 1851. He studied medicine at the Un ...
*
Vladan Radoman Vladan Radoman (1936 – 20 October 2015) was a Serbian physician writer. He grew up in his native country, with both his parents and his brother. He studied medicine in Belgrade.
Life
Born in Novi Sad, he settled in Paris. He began his medical s ...
References
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1845 births
1930 deaths
Serbian writers
Writers from Austria-Hungary
19th-century Serbian people
20th-century Serbian people
People from Novi Kneževac
Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe