Philosophy · XIX century · Osat
Luka Milovanov Georgijević
1784 — 1828 · lived 44 years
Writer and philologist. In literature, he is considered the first children's poet of modern Serbian literature. He advised Vuk Karadžić on the production of grammars and the dictionary. He is considered the first children's poet of modern Yugoslav literature. He was born in Bosnia, near Srebrenica, in the region of Osat. In Vinkovci he went to grammar school, in Szeged he studied philosophy, and in Pest he completed his law studies and became a jurist. By removing some superfluous letters in his works, he is considered among the first reformers (alongside Venclović, Dositej, and Mrkalj) of the Serbian/Yugoslav alphabet.
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