Georgije Magarašević

Georgije (Đorđe) Magarašević, teacher, cultural worker (born in Adaševci, Syrmia, 1793-Novi Sad, 1830). From 1813, he was a teacher at the Sremski Karlovci high school, and since 1817, at the Novi Sad high school. He started the Letopis, gave it its general direction, edited its first twenty volumes (1825–1830) and indicated the meaning of the first volume’s basic sections. It is believed that more than half of the content of those volumes came from Magarašević himself (the originals, among which the all important ‘Letters of a Filoserb’ and translations, especially of the Gesner's idylls), and that he wrote the section ‘Smesice’ himself. His collection of Dositej's and Solarić's letters is also of exceptional significance. An excerpt from Dositej's texts was published posthumously – The Spirit of Dositej's Writings ( Buda

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, 1830).