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Konstantin Bogdanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Константин Богдановић; Ruma, Srem, Austrian Empire, 2 March 1811 — Novi Sad, Serbia, then part of Austrian Empire, April 1854) was a Serbian Serbian lawyer, journalist, literary critic.[1][2][3]. He was a member of the Society of Serbian Letters[4]
Biography
[edit]Konstantin was the maternal grandson of[5] (or nephew?) of the writer Atanasije Stojković. He was a good student with a penchant for science. After primary school in Ruma, he completed the Karlovac Gymnasium. After completing his studies in philosophy in Szeged and law in Pest and Požun (until 1832). From 1830, he appeared as a translator and poet in the "Serbian Chronicle". Between 1832 and 1842, he worked in his native Ruma as a lawyer.[6][7]
Moving to the principality of Serbia by invitation, he worked as secretary of the State Council, and also became a member of the Society of Serbian Letters in 1842.[8]
After the overthrow of Prince Mihailo Obrenović, as a well-known Obrenović, he moved to Novi Sad. He anonymously published a political pamphlet in defense of Prince Miloš. Danilo Medaković and his friend Konstantin Branković were considered Obrenović agents in Austria. He then spent 1844-1847 on a study trip to Germany (Leipzig), France (Paris), and England (London).[9] He was also a confidant of Prince Mihailo Obrenović, whose affairs he spent a long time in Paris. After returning to the Austrian Empire, he lived for a short time in Ruma (1847). In Pest in March 1848, he launched and edited the Serbian political newspaper Vestnik,[10] which he moved to Sremski Karlovci in May, and to Zemun in the spring of 1849. The first issue of the newspaper published in Zemun was printed on a Danube ship, which was always ready to sail in the event of an enemy attack. The paper then became the "organ" of the Main Board of the Serbian Movement.[11] At one time, he was the secretary of Patriarch Josif Rajačić, an envoy of the Main People's Board in Vienna[12], a delegate from Ruma to the Austro-Hungarian Parliament in Zagreb, and after the end of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, a member of the Liquidation Commission in Timišvar.[13]
In 1853, he moved to Novi Sad, where he opened a law office. He died in that city in April 1854.
Works
[edit]He wrote literary and theatrical criticism, as well as articles on legal and political history. In 1839, he published an article entitled "Criticism in Peace", which made him considered one of the most important Serbian critics of the 19th century.[14] He also worked as a translator. In addition to Vestnik, he also wrote for Serbski narodni list, Serbske narodne novine, Letopis Matica srpske, Bačka vila and Sedmica.[15]
References
[edit]- Translated from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
- ^ name="lexicon">Yugoslavian Literary Lexicon (2. ed.). Novi Sad: Matica srpska. 1984. pp. 65–66.
- ^ Kostadinović, Aleksandar (2024). "Comparative studies of collective mentality: Travel letters of Konstantin Bogdanović". Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta U Pristini. 54 (2): 147–159. doi:10.5937/zrffp54-51435.
- ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382226780_Comparative_studies_of_collective_mentality_Travel_letters_of_Konstantin_Bogdanovic
- ^ "Bogdanovic Konstantin Kosta".
- ^ Dragisa Živković: "Poceci srpske knjizevne kriteke 1817-1860. godine", Belgrade 1957.
- ^ name="lexicon"
- ^ http://srpskaenciklopedija.org/doku.php?id=%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
- ^ "Bogdanovic Konstantin Kosta".
- ^ Živan Milisavac: "History of the Serbian Motherland", Novi Sad 1986.
- ^ "Beogradske opštinske novine", Belgrade 1 January 1936.
- ^ "Otađbina", Belgrade, 1 January 1882.
- ^ "Serbian Zion", Sremski Karlovci 15 June 1904.
- ^ http://srpskaenciklopedija.org/doku.php?id=%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
- ^ Predrag Palavestra: "History of Serbian Literary Criticism 1768-2007. godine", Belgrade 2008.
- ^ Serbian biographical dictionary book 1, A-B. Novi Sad: Matica srpska. 2004. pp. 607–608.