Gavrilo Popović
Gavrilo Popović or Bishop Gavrilo (Saint George Popović; 23 October 1811 – 7 February 1871) was Bishop of Šabac, Rector of Lyceum and the catechist of Belgrade.
Biography
[edit]He finished elementary school and a six-year course at the high school in Baja. He completed his philosophy in Szeged and Győr, the seventh and eighth grades of high school.[1] He began his law studies in Pest, but after one year of study, he decided to move to Sremski Karlovci to study theology instead.[1] He completed his seminary in Sremski Karlovci, and then, at the invitation of Belgrade Metropolitan Peter, moved to Serbia in 1834.[1] In the same year, he became a deacon and worked as a clerk in the metropolitan area.[2] In 1835 he was elevated to proto-deacon.[2]
A seminary was founded in Belgrade in 1836 and Gavrilo became a professor of the newly-established Belgrade seminary.[1] He remained in that service until 1839.[1] From 1839 he was named professor at the Lyceum with five others (Aleksije Okolski, Atanasije Teodorović, Isidor Stojanović, Atanasije Nikolić, Konstantin Branković) in Kragujevac, then the capital of Serbia.[3][4] The same Lyceum was transferred from Kragujevac to Belgrade (once the city was liberated) in 1841, and Gavrilo moved to Belgrade consequently.[2] He remained in that teaching position until May 1844.[2]
From 11 June 1842, he was a regular member of the Society Of Serbian Letters. He was Vice-President of the society in 1848, 1855 and 1856, and its Secretary in 1850.[3]
In May 1844 he was dismissed as the rector of the Lyceum and a member of the Consistory for some transgression that has yet to be made known.[5]
On 25 November 1860, he was appointed Bishop of Šabac. He wrote and published a Serbian premier in 1864 called Bukvar for the grade schools.[6] He also wrote educational children's stories and other textbooks. [7]
He retired on November 27, 1866[4] and after that lived for a time in the Ravanica Monastery and the Bukovo monastery.[2]
From 6 February 1869, he was appointed an honorary member of the Serbian Learned Society on 29 June 1864. He was a full member of the Philological and Philosophical Section.[3]
When he became seriously ill, he came to live with his friend and relative, Theodosius Mraović, in Belgrade in 1870.[2] He died 7 February 1871 in Belgrade.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Karanović, Milenko (1974). The Development of Education in Serbia: 1838-1858 : a thesis. University of Wisconsin--Madison.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ognjanović, Andrija M. (1964). Graničarske narodne škole i njihovi učitelji na teritoriji Vojvodine od 1774. do 1872. godine (in Serbian). Matica Srpska.
- ^ a b c Savremena škola (in Serbian). 1959.
- ^ a b Književni sever (in Serbian). 1925.
- ^ Petrovich, Michael Boro (1976). A History of Modern Serbia, 1804-1918. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 9780151409501.
- ^ Kempgen, Sebastian (2016-11-24). Slavic Alphabet Tables: Volume 3 - Odds and Ends (1530-1963) (in Russian). University of Bamberg Press. ISBN 978-3-86309-446-1.
- ^ Slovanstvo (in Slovenian). Matica Slovenska. 1874.