Dositej Obradović

Dimitrije Obradović was born in Čakovo, a Serbian village in the Banat, in 1739 or 1742, the date remaining disputed. Orphaned early, he ran away to the monastery of Hopovo, where he took the habit in 1758 under the name Dositej, and left it two years later for a wandering life: schoolmaster in Dalmatia, pupil of the Greeks in Smyrna, student at Halle, where he gave up the habit in 1782, then at Leipzig, guest of Paris and London. Returning to insurgent Serbia, he founded in Belgrade the country's first higher school and was its first minister of Education. He died in Belgrade in 1811.

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