Avram Mrazović

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Avram Mrazović

Avram Mrazović (born March 12, 1756 in Sombor , Vojvodina ; † February 8, 1826 there ) was a Serbian scientist, writer and school inspector.

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Avram Mrazović was born into a distinguished family. After finishing the Serbian elementary school and the Latin school in his hometown, he studied literature , poetry and rhetoric in Segedin and philosophy and education in Vienna . In November 1777 he was appointed school inspector of the Serbian Orthodox schools in the Batscher and Ofner eparchy . Six months later, in the spring of 1778, he attended the Serbian schools in Batschgau and in Baranya . In doing so, he successfully endeavored to promote the Serbian teaching profession financially and professionally. In order to have enough teachers in his sphere of activity, Mrazović founded the first Serbian teacher training institute, the so-called "Norma", on May 1, 1778 in Sombor.

Mrazović was also active as a scientist and writer . He wrote a Slavic grammar that provided valuable services in schools for many decades, an arithmetic book for elementary schools as well as educational-psychological studies for the education of young women. He also translated poems by Ovid and proverbs from Ponta from Latin into Serbian . Shortly before his death, his "rhetoric" appeared.

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SURNAME Mrazović, Avram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian scientist, writer and school inspector
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Sombor , Vojvodina
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1826
Place of death Sombor