Vid Vuletić Vukasović ( sr-Cyrl, Вид Вулетић Вукасовић; 16 December 1853 - 10 July 1933) was a writer and early ethnographer from

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. He was part of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.

Biography

Born in 1853 in Brsečine near

, Vukasović came from a renowned family from Gradac, a small village near

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, where his relatives, at the time of the Herzegovina Uprising, fought against the

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. He was baptized in the

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. Vukasović was a teacher by training, and worked as a teacher in

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, then as a professor in the Dubrovnik women's teacher school, and retired as a consultant in the latter institution. He worked as a historian and collector of folklore and ethnography. Vukasović was an associate of most relevant Dubrovnik newspapers and magazines of his time, amongst them ''Slovinci'', ''Javor'', ''Dawn'', ''Dubrovnik'', ''Ivy'' and Kašiković's ''Bosnian villas'' and Miković's ''Serbian magazine''. Dionizije Miković praised Vukasović's personal library. In 1907 he became a correspondent of the

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. He died in Dubrovnik,

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(now Croatia).

Works

* ''Bilješke o kulturi južnijeh Slavena, osobito Srbalja'', Dubrovnik: Naklada Srpske Dubrovačke Štamparije A. Pasarića, 1897. 240 pagesUDC: 09(=163.42)"18/19"
Library of the

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References

Sources

* ''Vuletić-Vukasović, Vid'' (G. Tomović, p. 319), ''Enciklopedija srpske istoriografije'', Belgrade 1997 {{DEFAULTSORT:Vukasovic, Vid Vuletic 1853 births 1933 deaths People from Dubrovnik Serbian Austro-Hungarians Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik Serbian ethnographers Serbian writers Serbs of Croatia