Avram Brankovic Explained

Avram Branković or Abraham Brankovits (Serbian Cyrillic: Аврам Бранковић; Vranjevo-Novi Bečej, 1799 - Brusnica, July 1831) was a Hungarian official in Buda of Serbian descent. He is best remembered as an excellent translator from German to Serbian.

His life

Son of Antonije Branković. He studied law in Karlovica and Szeged and received his degree in Jurisprudence from the Grande école in Pest, then he went on to perfect his Hungarian in Kežmarok and German in Vienna. In 1830 he went to the Serbia and sought employment as a district clerk at the newly-established printing press where he met many literary figures, including Vuk Karadžić, Marija Milutinovic Punktatorka, Julijana Radivojevic, Georgije Magarašević and others.[1] [2]

Avram Branković is best known for one of the oldest books that deals with the problems of ethnologic characteristics in Serbia -- "Characteristic or nation description" -- which was published in 1827 in Buda, only two years after Noveise zemleopisanie by Joakim Vujić was also published in Buda.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Danica Ilirska. 1838.
  2. Book: Danica horvatska, slavonska i dalmatinska. 1838.
  3. Web site: Google Scholar.
  4. Book: Charakteristik aller Nationen. 1827. Slovima Sveuchilishta Peshtanskog.
  5. Web site: Google Scholar.
  6. Book: Преглед и леточислено означение у царству историе свемирне, од почетка света до данас. 1828. Pismeni Kral. Universiteta Peštanskog.
  7. Web site: Pregled ... (Chronologische Uebersicht der Weltgeschichte vom Anfange der Welt bis zum heutigen Tage.) (Serb.). Brankovic. Avram. 1828.
  8. Book: Boj ... (Die Schlacht von Navarin oder die Zerstörung der türkischen Flotte.) (Serb.). 1829. Universitätsdr..
  9. Book: Wiener slawistischer Almanach. 1992. A. A. Hansen-Löve.
  10. Book: Slavica: Beiträge zum Studium der Sprache, Literatur, Kultur, Volks- und Altertumskunde der Slaven. 1933. C. Winter..