Jovan Skerlić
Jovan Skerlić | |
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| Born | 20 August 1877 |
| Died | 15 May 1914 (aged 36) |
| Occupations | Writer and critic |
Jovan Skerlić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Скерлић, pronounced [jǒʋan skêːrlitɕ]; 20 August 1877 – 15 May 1914) was a Serbian writer and literary critic.[1] He is seen as one of the most influential Serbian literary critics of the early 20th century,[2] after Bogdan Popović, his professor and early mentor.[3][4][5]
Skerlić was buried in the Novo groblje cemetery in Belgrade.[6]
Biography
[edit]Skerlić's paternal family hailed from Šumadija while his maternal family hailed from Vojvodina.[7] Already in high school he got interested in socialist ideas of Svetozar Marković and joined various groups and publications.[7] In 1895 he enrolled into the Grand School of Belgrade where he was strongly influenced by French language and comparative literature course held by Bogdan Popović.[7] During the university education he initiated correspondence with foreign socialist including professor Georges Renard (1847-1930) at the University of Lausanne.[7] He graduated in 1899 when he moved to Lausanne in Switzerland to work on his doctoral dissertation subsequently moving to Paris where he spent a couple of months before returning to Belgrade.[7]
In early 1904, Skerlić spent two months in Munich, then went to Paris again and returned to Belgrade in July 1904 where he received a job offer at the University of Belgrade in 1905 (he lost his job at the Grand School in 1903 for his political engagement).[7] With secured tenure, Skerlić took the ambitious and voluminous projects of writing the authoritative history of contemporary Serbian literature.[7] His opus magnum, the History of the Contemporary Serbian Literature (Istorija nove srpske književnosti), was completed two months before his early death in 1914.[7]
Bibliography
[edit]His collected works include:
- Pisci i knjige I
- Pisci i knjige II
- Pisci i knjige III
- Pisci i knjige IV
- Pisci i knjige V
- Pisci i knjige VI
- Feljtoni skice i govori
- Istorijski pregled srpske štampe 1791–1911
- Javno mnenje u Francuskoj prema političkoj i socijalnoj poeziji od 1830 do 1848.
- Srpska književnost u XVIII veku
- Omladina i njena književnost (1848–1871) izučavanja o nacionalnom i književnom romantizmu kod Srba
- Svetozar Marković njegov život, rad i ideje
- Jakov Ignjatović književna studija
- Istorija nove srpske književnosti
- Jovan Skerlić čovek i dela by dr Midhat Begić
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Jovan Skerlić u srpskoj književnosti 1877–1977: Zbornik radova. Posebna izdanja, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Belgrade.[page needed]
- ↑ Mumovic, Ana (2015). "Jovan Skerlic as a Life Tutor". Research in Pedagogy. 5 (1): 129–135. ISSN 2217-7337.
- ↑ Milojkovic-Djuric, Jelena (1988). "The Roles of Jovan Skerlic, Steven Mokranjac, and Paja Jovanovic in Serbian Cultural History, 1900-1914". Slavic Review. 47 (4): 687–701. doi:10.2307/2498188. JSTOR 2498188. S2CID 155276194.
- ↑ "Vremeplov: Rođen književnik i istoričar Jovan Skerlić". rtv.rs. 20 August 2010.
- ↑ Dominanti i usputni tokovi u srpskoj književnosti, Razvojne etape u srpskoj književnosti XX veka i njihove osnovne odlike, ed. Miroslav Pantić (Belgrade, SANU, 1981), pp. 60–61.
- ↑ Jovan Skerlić Archived 18 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine at the New Graveyard
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dragiša Živković (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon]. Novi Sad: Matica srpska. pp. 483–485.
Bibliography
[edit]- Midhat Begić, Jovan Skerlić et la critique littéraire en Serbie, Paris, Institut d’Études slaves 1963.
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