Miloš Mandić

Journalist and teacher. He was a great connoisseur of the Serbian language in Bosnia and Herzegovina and worked on its preservation. He was born in Bihać but received his education in Vinkovci, Sremski Karlovci and Belgrade. He also completed two years of law studies in Belgrade before teaching for several years in Serbia. He moved to Sarajevo to work as a journalist and publisher. He made great contributions to literature at that time. He was the first to prepare a Primer (Bukvar) for Serbian schools in Bosnia with new spelling, which were printed in the newspaper "Bosna" in 1868. In addition to the Primer, there was also the "Serbian Reader- Srpska čitanka", "Little Priestly History" and a booklet called "New Knowledge". In 1869 he authored a dictionary "Turkisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina" published by the provincial government in 1881.