Nikola Borojevic
Nikola Borojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Боројевић; Otočac, 1796 — Karlovac, 23 February 1872) was a Serbian poet[1] and a member of the Society of Serbian Letters.
Biography
Nikola Borojević was born in Otočac in 1796. He began his education in his hometown and continued his studies in Rijeka, Ljubljana, and Vienna. He specialized in polytechnics and economics. After completing his education, he settled in Rijeka, where he spent most of his life as a technical officer.Cite error: Invalid parameter in <ref> tag
He was attached to the border guard, military administrative office, and held the rank of lieutenant before his death. In Smiljan, Vuk Karadžić visited him in 1838, when Borojević was collecting ethnographic material for Vuk.[2] He first appeared with an article in the Pest magazine Srpske novine (Serbian News), dedicated to art, literature, and entertainment, in 1838. He served in the military in 1839 and 1840 in Gospić, from where he regularly sent poems to the Serbian magazines based in Buda.[3] Then from 1842 to 1846, Borojević became a Oberlejtant[4] in Ogulin.[5]
Borojević was a corresponding member of the Society of Serbian Letters in Belgrade (1844–1872). He sent his biography to the society in 1870.[6] His poems and other contributions were published in Novi Sad's Matica srpska and Danica, from 1865 to 1870.[7]
Borojević wrote two hundred poems, mostly pious and patriotic. Although he did not necessarily agree with Vuk, his written language is more vernacular than Church Slavonic. His poems were published in a separate collection posthumously.[8]. He wrote satirical and didactic verses.[9] His most famous are: Prayer to St. Nicholas, Prayer to St. Sava, Blessed Shadow Stanko Vraz, etc. Most of his poems were published in "Sedmica", "Dragoljub", "Srbski narodni list" (Budim), in Novi Sad's "Danica" and in "Vojvođanka"Cite error: Invalid parameter in <ref> tag
Borojević died on 23 February 1872. He is buried in the cemetery in Sremski Karlovci.<ref name=":0" </ref>
References
- Translated from Serbian Wikipedia:
- ↑ cite book |title=Yugoslav Literary Lexicon |date=1984 |publisher=Matica srpska |location=Novi Sad |page=73 |edition=2.
- ↑ Vuk St. Karadžić: "Serbian Folk Tales", Vienna 1849.
- ↑ "Srbski narodni list", Buda 1840.
- ↑ "Peštansko-Budimski skoroteča", Buda 1842.
- ↑ Vuk St. Karadžić: "Serbian folk tales", Vienna 1846.
- ↑ "Glasnik društva srpske slovesnosti", Belgrade 1865.
- ↑ "Matica", Novi Sad 1868.
- ↑ https://www.biblio.com/book/nikola-borojevic-sabrana-dela-veselinov-ivanka/d/1074524622?srsltid=AfmBOorUUQLnMw-m6sYrphglvtR6i6TeU5zy0UBeRAHfjfhDIzlePQrQ
- ↑ "Glasnik društva srpske slovesnosti", Belgrade 1874.
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