Nikola Šimić also spelled Nikola Shimich (Serbian: Никола Шимић; 1766 in

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– 5 January 1848 in Sombor,

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) is credited for being the author of the first modern book on logic in the Serbian language, published in

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in two volumes, Volume I in 1808 and Volume II in 1809. His second work, () (''The Art of Decent Joking''), was published in 1814, also in Budapest. Nikola Šimić was a

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who studied the works of Christian Wolff and Friedrich Christian Baumeister. Avram Mrazović, a friend of Nikola Šimić, wrote the second book on logic in Serbian in a similar manner, entitled "Logic, or Reasoning," completed in 1826, the year Mrazović died. The book was not published.

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