Jevstatije Mihajlović Explained

Jevstatije Mihajlovic-Eta (Veliki Beckerek, 1802 - Budapest, 18 October 1888) was a writer, lawyer, senator and judge from the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary.

Biography

He was born in 1802 in Veliki Bečkerek (today Zrenjanin). In his youth, he worked as a teacher for some time. He studied philosophy in Petrovaradin, and law in Sárospatak. After completing his studies, he returned in 1827 back to Veliki Bečkerek, where he lived until 1849 and held important positions in the city government, as well as in Torontál County.

As an educated man and an official of the county and the city, he was registered as a subscriber of several Serbian periodicals many times, and he was also engaged in literary work. According to subscriptions and published works, it is possible to monitor his career progress. He published his first romantic story in 1827 in Buda, as a "lawyer".

The following year in 1828, Mihajlović became a subscriber of a book as a "jurat and writer" in Bečkerek. Then his long public activity began, and as a young man, he became the head of the Bečkerek municipality and between 1829 and 1839 as a city bureau head,[1] but also as a "writer" (and lawyer) of the town of Bečkerek.[2]

As a subscriber to Letopis Matica srpska" in 1833 and a lawyer from Bečkerec, he became a member in 1834 of the "Serbian Literary Society" at Budapest, where he found himself in the good company with like-minded Josif Milovuk, one of the founders Matica srpska, but who eventually withdrew from it for personal reasons. Mihajlović was appointed director of the Latin-Illyrian school in Veliki Bečkerek (1837, 1844), and captain of the town (1840-1841).[3] school (1844).

Before the Civil War in 1848, he was a city senator (1842-1848) and a member of the Torontál County Assembly, which published a book in Novi Sad.

In January 1849, the Serbian army under the command of Stevan Knićanin captured Veliki Bečkerek, where they were solemnly welcomed by a deputation of Bečkerek Serbs. Shortly afterwards, the formation of new authorities began. The administration of the city was taken over by the Serbian People's Committee of Veliki Bečkerek, which was mainly composed of former Serbian members of the city Senate. The committee sought to liaise with the patriarch Josif Rajačić, interim administrator Vojvodovine Srpska, proclaimed at the May Assembly in Sremski Karlovci. Rajačić came to Veliki Beckerek on 19 January 1849, from where he actively led the process of establishing the power of the Serbian People's Movement in the area of the "Torontál County City Border". Mihajlović at the time was a member of the commission for drafting the constitution of Vojvodina. At that time he enjoyed a great reputation of the Assembly and the patriarch.

In April 1849, when the Hungarians captured Veliki Bečkerek, he withdrew to Zemun with the Patriarch Josif Rajačić and all the members of the Main Board of Vojvodina.

As an advisor to the Supreme Court, he was a deputy from Bečkerec at the Serbian Church of the Annunciation's Assembly (Annunciation Church-People's Assembly of Serbs) in Sremski Karlovci held on 1 April 1861, were at that time he had accommodation in the house of Petar Marinković, an old friend.

He was a subscriber to a book in 1862, as an advisor to the Beckerek District Supreme Court. In the middle of 1863, he was elected the royal commissioner of the district, based in Kikinda. Because of that function, he moved to Velika Kikinda.[4]

As a pensioner, he continued to perform the function of court advisor from 1872 to 1882. He lived in Velika Kikinda.[5]

In 1874 he settled in Pest. His daughter Ana married Baron Adolf Staudeh.

He died in 1888 in Budapest.

Literary work

He is a true representative of Serbian romanticism and is considered the founder of Velika Bečkerec literature. He was engaged in literature for almost six decades. Although his literary opus was prolific and diverse, it remained forgotten all this time. Of all the creations, today he is mentioned only as an outraged opponent of Vuk Karadžić and his reforms. His literary works, however, are now being researched and appreciated:

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Works cited

Notes and References

  1. "Serbian newspaper or magazine for art, literature and fashion", Budim in 1838
  2. Simon Milutinovic: " Pjevanija crnogorska i hercegovacka ", Budim 1833. godine
  3. "Zrenjanin", monograph, Zrenjanin in 1966
  4. "Serbian Diary", Novi Sad in 1863
  5. "Glas naroda", Novi Sad 1872.
  6. Book: Михајловић, Јевстатије. Јевстатије Михајловић. Іллѵри и Србльи или Прегледъ народности старосѣдіоца Іллѵрика и имена, писмена и начина писаня данашньи Србаля. 1843. Нови Сад.

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