Jakov Ignjatović

Jakov Ignjatović was born in 1822 in Szentendre, north of Buda; his father, a notable of the town, died six years later. He studied law in Pest, enlisted in the hussars and in 1848 fought on the Hungarian side against Vienna, which forced him to flee to Belgrade, where he was a journalist until 1850. Editor of the Letopis of the Matica srpska from 1854 to 1856, then chief notary of Novi Sad, he was elected to the Serbian Academy in 1888 and died in Novi Sad in 1889.

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• NovelВечити младожењаJakov Ignjatović · 1878not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain