Tihomir Ostojić
Tihomir Ostojić
1912 - 1914
Tihomir Ostojić, professor, literary historian, melographer (Tisza Szent
Miklos/Ostojićevo, 1865-Vienna, 1921). He was a pedagogue and educator in the
broadest sense, initiator of reforms in
and
Letopis. Studies on the work of Dositej Obradović (his time in Hopovo),
of Serbian literature in Vojvodina, of Z. Orphelin, of the works by B.
Radičević, as well as of the emerging Serbian bourgeois-class poetry, are an
indispensable contribution to the history of Serbian literature. He became the
secretary of Matica srpska (1911) and then the editor of
Letopis (1912-1914), whose first issue under his editorship opened with
an editorial in which he presented his own program, one of the basic
initiatives of which was to raise the national consciousness of the Serbian
people under the Austro-Hungarian rule. During his editorship, he gave
Letopis new frameworks, expanding and modernizing its thematic field.
His significant educational work included concern for the organization of
singing societies and the nurturing of artistically valuable choral singing.