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Sava Tekelija
Serbian lawyer (1761–1842) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sava Tekelija (Serbian: Сава Текелија) (1761–1842) was the first Serbian doctor of law, the founder of the Tekelijanum, president of the Matica srpska, philanthropist, noble, and merchant.[1]
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Life
Born in Arad in the Habsburg monarchy (today in Romania) Tekelija studied at a Serb elementary school, went to a Buda Gymnasium, and studied law in Vienna and Budapest.[2] He finished his studies in 1785, and became the first Serb doctor of law (doctor juris) a year later. He was elected lifetime president of Matica srpska in 1838.[3] Tekelija was an outspoken opponent of the language reforms of Vuk Karadžić, which incorporated local dialects, and instead advocated to standardize the Serbian literary language by utilizing Slavonic-Serbian as a template, which he believed to be an elevated form of the language.[4]
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