Radivoje Vrhovac
Radivoje Vrhovac
1930
Radivoje Vrhovac, a Slavicist, professor (Laćarak, Srem, 1863 – Novi Sad, 1946).
From 1896 he was a member of
, and from
1908, the vice president of its Literary Department. He published works in the
field of pedagogy, literary history, philology, and biographical texts, mostly
in Letopis, but also in other magazines and newspapers. At the first
assembly of Matica Srpska after the First World War (September 2nd
1920), he was appointed president. During his presidency, the Progressive
Women’s Matica was founded as a special section of Matica srpska in 1920; the
was
opened to the public in 1922; the administration and the Library of Matica
Srpska were moved in 1926 to their Novi Sad headquarter, which until then
housed the orphanage of the Marija Trandafil Institute; the centenary of
Matica srpska was solemnly celebrated, on the occasion of which the
commemorative Matica srpska 1826—1926 was published, as well as the
album
Serbian art in Vojvodina from the late medieval period up to the
unification
(1927); the
was founded in 1933. He edited four volumes of Letopis (1930) and one
volume of Work and Directory of Matica Srpska (1930). Resourceful and
versatile as he was (literature, languages, public education), Vrhovac
regarded national culture as a democratic and social heritage, with a
skeptical attitude towards the conditions in Europe of the time and prospects
for peaceful cooperation among nations.