Gavrilo Vitković

Gavrilo Vitković (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Витковић; January 28, 1829 – July 25, 1902) was an engineer, historian, professor and collector of old manuscripts. He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society.

Gavrilo Vitković
Born	Гаврило Витковић (1829-01-28)January 28, 1829 Buda, Austrian Empire
Died	July 25, 1902(1902-07-25) (aged 73) Negotin, Kingdom of Serbia
Nationality	Austrian, Serbian
Occupation(s)	an engineer, historian, professor and collector of old manuscripts
Known for	being a member of the Serbian Learned Society

Biography

After graduating from the University of Budapest, Vitković worked as an engineer in Smederevo and Šabac. Later, he taught engineering in secondary schools in Kragujevac and Belgrade. And in his spare time he collected original documents and manuscripts mostly about 18th- and 19th- century people from Serbia and granted his collection to the National Library of Serbia.^[1]