Lazar Bojić (Serbian: Лазар Бојић) (1791–1859) was a Serbian writer and a priest. Lazar was a Serbian Orthodox priest in Osijek from 1838 to 1852, and engaged in literature (published a book in 1815).[1][2] His 1815 work Pamjatnik mužem u slaveno-serbskom knižestvu slavnym [Pantheon of renowned figures of the Slavic-Serb literature], comprising four volumes of biographies of Serbian writers and poets, is considered a significant work in Serbian literary studies.[3][4] He is also remembered as the first Serbian bibliographer.[5]
Lazar Bojić | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1791 |
| Died | 17 July 1859 (aged 67–68) |
| Nationality | Serbian |
Lazar Bojić was a student of the Seminary in Sremski Karlovci, where he attended his final years of schooling in 1812 and 1813, listening to lectures on Serbian literature by Lukijan Mušicki, which he eventually incorporated into his broad survey of writers and poets of the Age of Enlightenment (See: List of Serbs). He was inspired by Dositej Obradović's Etika; Pavle Solarić's Pomesinak knjizeski (Literary Compendium); and correspondences between Lukijan Mušicki and Jernej Kopitar and some of Mušicki's manuscripts and notes.[6] He brought to light most of the 18th century Serbian poets, writers, painters of the Age of Enlightenment, namely contemporaries of Dositej Obradović and also his desciples. He also criticized Vuk Karadžić because Bojić believed that Serbo-Slavonic had a place side-by-side with the new language reform.[7]
Works
edit- Bojić, Lazar (January 28, 1815). "Pamjatnik mužem u slaveno-serbskom knižestvu slavnym".
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Србска новина или Магазин за художество, книжество и моду", Будим 1838. године
- ^ "Serbian newspaper or magazine for art, literature and fashion", Budim 1838.
- ^ Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (January 28, 2004). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 9027234558 – via Google Books.
- ^ Serbian Literary Magazine. Serbian Writers Association, International October Meeting of Writers, Yugoslav Authors Agency--Serbian Department, and Serbian P.E.N. Centre. 1995.
- ^ Lazar Bojić - prvi srpski biobibliograf. Filološki fakultet. 1968.
- ^ Pejčić, Jovan (2011). "The Inception of the Serbian History of Literature". Serbian Studies Research. 2 (1): 81–109. ISSN 2217-5210.
- ^ Folia Slavica. Slavica Publishers. 1980.