Sima Milutinović

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Sima Milutinović

Sima Milutinović (also Milutinović-Sarajlija , German and Simeon Milutinowitsch written; born October 3 . Jul / 14. October  1791 greg. In Sarajevo , † December 30, 1847 . Jul / 11. January  1848 . Greg in Belgrade ) was a Serbian Poet and is considered the founder of New Serbian literature, together with Vuk Stefanović Karadžić .

life and work

Milutinović was born the son of a businessman. Only with difficulty and with many complaints did he acquire some education in Belgrade , where his parents had fled from the plague, and at the grammar school in Carlovicz (Karlowitz; Austria). Expelled from the last institution for reading forbidden books, he was given a clerk's position at the (princely) State Chancellery in Belgrade in 1806, which he held until 1813. He also held a teaching post at the Belgrade University.

During the uprising of the Serbs in 1815 he wandered about mostly unsteadily; sometimes he was the scribe of the Serbian bishop, sometimes among scattered crowds ( ... belonging to the typical regional armament of anti-Turkish freedom fighters, (the poet) Simeon Milutinovich exchanged the pen for the rifle ... ).

Eventually he became a gardener's assistant to a Turk in Vidin . Returned to Belgrade, he took a job for a time with the brother of Prince Miloš (Milos) ; then he went to Bessarabia to see his parents again.

Abroad

The Wallachian- Greek unrest, which had broken out in the meantime, prevented his return to Serbia; he emigrated to Russia in 1820 and received a pension from the Russian emperor , so that he could now devote himself entirely to the muses. At that time he composed his Serbianka ( The Serbian ), a series of lyrical-epic poems in which the revolt of the Serbs against foreign rulers is described with warmth and loyalty.

In 1825 Milutinović went to Leipzig, where he not only published this collection of poems (4 volumes, 1826), but also two other collections of poetry ( Nekolike pjesnice stare , 1826, and Zorica , 1827). Glowing patriotism, warmth of feeling, bold originality in image and expression characterize these poems. For two years he attended lectures at the philosophy faculty of the University of Leipzig, which enabled him to acquire the German language and a higher education. Milutinović also got in touch with the writer Talvj and met the Sorbian poet Handrij Zejler , who was studying in Leipzig at the time.

He also offered Wilhelm Gerhard support with the publication of his Wila ( that you may donate your activity to the Slavic languages. You have Mr. Milutinowitsch with you, and you certainly do not lack any help and assistance in such an important trading city [Leipzig] ).

In 1827, since he was still unable to return to Serbia, he went to Montenegro , where Prince-Bishop Petar I. Petrović received him hospitably, entrusted him with the education of the future ruler, Vladika Petar II, and granted him leisure, a new rich one To create a collection of Serbian folk songs, which was then printed under the personal direction of Milutinović in the original language under the title Folk songs of the Montenegrins and Herzegovinian Serbs , but appeared under the pseudonym Cubro Cojkovié (Ofen 1833 and Leipzig 1837). He was also able to publish his History of Montenegro (Petersburg 1835) and the History of Serbia in the years 1813-15 , written in Serbian . In 1835 the drama Dika Crnogorska ( The Pride of Cernagora , Cetinje 1835) was published. A source briefly reports that Milutinović was still in Bulgaria.

Back in Serbia

From 1840 Milutinović lived again in Serbia ( where the first Serbian voivods stayed, Milutinovich stayed ), received a high post in the Ministry of Education, but also interfered in higher politics, so that his life was in danger during the uprising of 1840 and even sentenced to death in absentia.

Nonetheless, Milutinović wrote numerous epic and lyrical texts in the spirit of the Serbianka and became an essential pioneer of the newly revived literary activity in Serbia. However, with the publication of the Karadjordje tragedy, he made numerous new enemies and died in poverty on December 30, 1847 jul. / January 11, 1848 greg. .

comment

A comparison of the biographies of the two Serbian poets (Milutinović and Karadžić ) shows astonishingly similar life paths and results. - Both attended a school in Karlovicz, both served with the same family, Prince Miloš Obrenović , both were in Leipzig, both worked with Wilhelm Gerhard , both created the basics in Serbian, so it seems opportune to assume that they knew each other and possibly benefited from each other. However, there was (so far) no concrete reference to this in the German-language literature.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mićo Cvijetić: Serbsko-serbiska literarna a kulturna wzajomnosć. In: Rozhlad 2001.

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personal data
SURNAME Milutinović, Sima
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian philologist and representative of the modern Serbian written language
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarajevo
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1848
Place of death Belgrade