Djordje Radak
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Đorđe Đoka Radak (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Ђока Радак; Velika Kikinda, Habsburg Monarchy, 20 August 1823 - Velika Kikinda, Austrian Empire, 31 January 1906) was lawyer and landowner, and a great benefactor and Serbian patriot of Kikinda.
Biography[edit]
Đorđe Đoka Radak is one of the most famous members of the old Kikinda family Radak. [1]
He is the son of respectable and honest parents, Gliša and Julijana Radak, née Tatić of Stara Kanjiža in Bačka. [2] He finished primary school in Kikinda, high school in Szegedin, Subotica,[3], Debrecen, Kecskemét and Law School in Bratislava and Vienna. He is was a very active member of the Serbian youth association Preodnica in Požun. During his lifetime, he was a judge in Timisoara, a senator, and an elected representative of the town. He worked as a lawyer for a while and later was a landowner-entrepreneur.
As a lawyer in Požun with his friends, Đoka welcomed the Novi Sad deputation in 1848, which brought Serbian demands to the Hungarian Parliament. And after the May Assembly, the 1848 Rebellion in Kikinda was organized. He agreed to go from Karlovac to his native Kikinda and to invite the Serbs of Banat to defend Serbian Vojvodina from possible Hungarian annexation. He was a participant in the Majska skupština in Sremski Karlovci and a member of the Main Board of the People's Movement. He represented Kikinda at the Annunciation Council in 1861.
He is one of the founders of DZNM "Gusle" in 1876. He lived and worked for some time in Belgrade (1878), but returned to Banat disappointed. He helped his cousin Jovan Radak to start a printing house. He was the first editor of the 1881 Kikinda Calendar and wrote articles for this public media from 1881 to 1887. He wrote poems.
He passed the bar exam after the Hungarian uprising in Pest. He gained great wealth by practicing law and agriculture. He had no children in the marriage and left only 20,000 crowns to his relatives. As a benefactor, he bequeathed his property to many Serbian associations. The value of Radak's support was as much as 225,000 crowns. [4] Thus he helped the Serbian Teachers Boarding School, the construction of the Serbian Women's Teachers' School in Velika Kikinda, Serb students in general, and many others. He bequeathed about 100 rare books to the Literary Fund of Matica srpska, mostly only surviving copies.
His direct descendant is the mathematician and writer Vladislav Radak (1987).
Literature[edit]
- Grujic, Miroslav (2014). "My Kikinda - let's find out where we live" Kikinda National Museum
- Dejanac, Dusan (2004). "Lexicon of famous Kikinda citizens" Historical-native society "Kinđa" Kikinda
- Rajkov, Milivoj (2003). "History of the city of Kikinda until 1918" Historical archive, Kikinda
- Stajić, Vasa (1989). "The Greater Kikinda District 1776-1876." Matica srpska, Kikinda Literary Community
Reference[edit]
- Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%92%D0%B5_%D0%82%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BA
