Matica srpska
Матица српска | |
Cultural studies | |
Headquarters | Novi Sad, Serbia |
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Location | |
Coordinates | 45°15′33″N 19°50′42″E / 45.259281°N 19.8451362°E |
Membership | 3.000 |
President | prof. dr. Dragan Stanić |
Website | www |
The Matica srpska (
The main goals are to restore and promote Serbian national and cultural identity in the fields of art, science, spiritual creativity, economy and public life as well as to care for social development of Serbia. The literary and cultural society played a huge role in the flourishing of science and culture of the Serbs of Vojvodina, Serbia.
The need for national homogenization, enlightenment, as well as the publication of Serbian books, were the main reasons for the formation of such a Society. The immediate reason for founding Matica Srpska was the need to take over the Serbian Chronicle (later the Chronicle of Matica Srpska), the oldest Serbian literary magazine and then the only Serbian newspaper, which was threatened with extinction.
The Matica Srpska Publishing Center has regular publishing activities, including several projects of national importance, such as Ten Centuries of Serbian Literature (Десет векова српске књижевности).
Today, in the Palace of Matica srpska in Novi sad more than hundred book presentations, scientific symposia, round table discussions, professional and scientific lectures and concerts of classical music are being organized annually. Matica Srpska is also one of the largest and most important book and magazine publishers in Serbia.
Matica Srpska operates on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) as Association of Members of Matica Srpska in Republika Srpska, as well in Montenegro as Association of members of Matica Srpska in Montenegro. In addition, Matica Srpska operates in Vienna.[4]
Etymology
The name Matica is best translated as "The Centre", although the term matica in this context translates as "queen bee" or "parent body", and the adjective srpska refers to Serbia and/or Serbs. According to this, the name of Matica srpska can be literally translated into English as "Parent body of the Serbs".
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History
Of all the Slavic maticas, Matica Srpska was the first to be established in the Habsburg Empire at the time of a Serb national and cultural awakening.[5]
During the national awakening from the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, the Serbs of the Serbian Vojvodina played a significant role as, though "by force of historical circumstance, they formed at this period the core of Serb intellectual life".[6][7] One of the most important tasks facing the Serbs, in advancing cultural-national rebirth, was the solution of the literary language problem, and, as a result of the first fifty years of the 19th century, saw the Vojvodina Serbs engaged in an intense debate about the kind of literary language that their newly revitalized, emerging nation should adopt.[8]
For the Slavic people, as well as the non-Slavs, under the Habsburg Empire, the Matica foundation fomented the development of national cultures. Indeed, the oldest is Matica srpska founded in 1826 in Pest by
The story of the Matica Srpska actually began in 1824,
In 1838, a wealthy Serb landowner,
The Matica Srpska Society was one of the initiators of the
In Yugoslavia, Matica Srpska was one half of a joint project (with Matica hrvatska) to develop a common Serbo-Croatian dictionary. Mid-way through the project (1967), Matica hrvatska, by the declaration of principles about the Croatian language, withdrew, and Matica srpska was left to finish the dictionary on her own.[11]
Matica Srpska has been an example to many Slavic nations. Based on this model the following institutions were established: Czech Matica in 1831, Illyrian Matica in 1842 (in 1874 renamed to Matica hrvatska); Matica Lužičkosrpska in 1847, Halych-Russian Matica in
Activities and library
Matica Srpska publishes the Letopis Matice srpske magazine, which is one of the oldest in the world,[2] being continuously published since 1824.
The institution has already published numerous books by authors such as Jovan Sterija Popović since its inception.[12]
The Law of the Matica Srpska Society (1986) regulates matters of endowment and legacy, given by the national benefactors, and how money is spent for various cultural and educational purposes.
The Matica Srpska has a library with over 3,500,000 books and other documents.[2]
Presidents
President | ||
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# | Portrait | Name |
1 | Jovan Hadzic | |
2 | Mihailo Jovanovic | |
3 | Sava Tekelija | |
4 | Platon Atanackovic | |
5 | Pavle Trifunac | |
6 | Pavle Kojić | |
7 | Stevan Branovački | |
8 | Jovan Subotic | |
9 | Stevan Pavlovic | |
10 | Đorđe Natošević | |
11 | Laza Stanojevic | |
12 | Miloš Dimitrijević | |
13 | Antonije Hadzic | |
14 | Gedeon Dundjerski | |
15 | Radivoje Vrhovac | |
16 | Vasa Stajić | |
17 | Aleksandar Moč | |
18 | Milan Petrovic | |
19 | Veljko Petrovic | |
20 | Radomir Radujkov | |
21 | Mladen Leskovac | |
22 | Milivoj Nikolajevic | |
23 | Zivan Milisavac | |
24 | Bosko Petrovic | |
25 | Božidar Kovaček | |
26 | Cedomir Popov | |
27 | Dragan Stanic |
Editors of Letopis Matice srpske
- Georgije Magarašević (1824–1830)
- Jovan Hadžić (1830–1831)
- Pavle Stamatović (1831–1832)
- Teodor Pavlović (1832–1841)
- Jovan Subotić (1841–1848)
- Sima Filipović (1848)
- Jovan Subotić (1850–1853)
- Jakov Ignjatović (1854–1856)
- Jovan Mladenović-Subota (1856–1857)
- Jovan Đorđević (1857–1859)
- Antonije Hadžić (1859–1871)
- Jovan Bošković (1871–1875)
- Antonije Hadžić (1876–1895)
- Milan Savić (1896–1911)
- Tihomir Ostojić (1912–1914)
- Vasa Stajić (1921)
- Kamenko Subotić (1922–1923)
- Marko Maletin (1923–1929)
- Stevan Ćirić (1929)
- Svetislav Banica (1929)
- Radivoje Vrhovac (1930)
- Todor Manojlović (1931)
- Žarko Vasiljević (1932)
- Nikola Milutinović (1933–1935)
- pedagogue
- Nikola Milutinović (1936–1941)
- Živan Milisavac (1946–1957)
- Mladen Leskovac (1958–1964)
- Boško Petrović (1964–1969)
- Aleksandar Tišma (1969–1973) novelist
- Dimitrije Vučenov (1974–1979)
- Momčilo Milankov (1979)
- Boško Ivkov (1980–1991)
- Slavko Gordić (1992–2008)
- Ivan Negrišorac (2008–present) is the pen name of poet Dragan Stanić.
References
- ^ The name in Serbia, as "Матица српска" formats only the first word to have a capital letter, as also the style in Italian titles or operas. For the name in English, each word can have a capital letter, as customary for English titles.
- ^ a b c d e "MATICA SRPSKA" Archived 8 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine, maticasrpska.org.rs, 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
- ^ "Издавачки Центар Матице Српске".
- ^ Оснива се Матица српска у дијаспори („Политика“, 18. април 2016)
- ^ Srbi u Vojvodini, Том 2 by Dušan J. Popović, Matica srpska, 1990, pg. 3
- JSTOR 4206745.
- JSTOR 29781177.
- JSTOR 40867336.
- ^ "Rastko Budimpesta". www.rastko.rs. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ name=MS
- ^ a b "Društvo mladih lingvista - Rečnici savremenog srpskog jezika".
- ^ Publication of 1828 on the Website of the Library, retrieved on 2017-10-28.