Dositej Obradović
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Dositej (Dositheus) Dimitrije Obradović (Доситеј Обрадовић) (February 17, 1742? - 1811) was a Serbian author, writer and translator.
He was born Dimitrije Obradović in the village of Čakovo (now Ciacova, Timiş County, Romania) in Banat, probably in 1742. On February 17, 1757 he became a monk in the Serb Orthodox monastery of Hopovo (in Srem) and acquired the name Dositej (Dositheus). He lived there until November 2, 1760. He travelled Europe and Asia Minor for forty years after that: he went to Albania Dalmatia, Corfu, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Romania, France, Russia, England, Italy. He finally went to Belgrade where he died.
Obradović had grown up bilingual (Serbian/Romanian) and learned classical Greek, Latin, modern Greek, German, English, French, Russian, Albanian and Italian.
[edit] Works
- Pisma Haralampiju, 1783
- Život i priključenija, 1783; 1788 (second part published as an annex to 'Basne')
- Sovjeti zdravago razuma, 1784
- Basne, 1788
- Pesma o izbavljenju Srbije, 1789
- Sobranije, 1793
- Etika, 1803
- Pesma na insurekciju Serbijanov, 1804
- Mezimac, 1818
- Ižica, 1770
