Jovan Hadžić

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Jovan Hadžić
Portrait of Jovan Hadržić by Novak Radonić, 1854
Born	(1799-09-08)8 September 1799 Sombor, Austrian Empire
Died	28 April 1869(1869-04-28) (aged 69) Novi Sad, Austro-Hungary
Occupation	writer, legislator

Jovan Hadžić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Хаџић, pseudonym Miloš Svetić; Sombor, 8 September 1799 – Novi Sad, 28 April 1869) was a Serbian writer, legislator and initiator, that is, the principal co-founder of Matica Srpska. He signed his literary work as Miloš Svetić and was an influential figure in the drafting of the Civil and Criminal Code of Serbia in 1844.^[1] Serbia is the fourth modern-day European country after France, Austria and the Netherlands to have a codified legal system because of Hadžić's work.^[2]

Biography[]

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Jovan Hadžić is remembered as a founder of the Matica Srpska and as the most persistent opponent of Vuk Karadžić's orthographic reform.^[3] However, Hadžić was also a poet and translator, a legislator in the Principality of Serbia, as well as an active public figure. Having established a commendable reputation through his early poetry, many thought he could be a worthy successor to Lukijan Mušicki.

Selected works[]

• Sud u grammatiki Vekoslava Babukića, 1838
• Golubica s cvetom knižestva srbskog, 1839
• Vukov odgovor na Utuk, 1843
• Utuk 2 ili odgovor na Vukov odgovor, 1844
• Izstupleniia M. Svetića u Utuk II, 1845

See also[]

• Serbian civil law
• Matica srpska
• Josif Milovuk

References[]

• Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: Јован Хаџић
• Jovan Skerlić, Istrorija nove srpske knjizevnosti (Belgrade, 1914, 1921) pages 189-192.