Mita Petrović
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Dimitrije "Mita" Petrović (
Life and work
Mita Petrović was born on 24 October 1848 in
He diligently followed the development of his profession and wrote about the results of
He was also politically active for a time. As such, he was elected a member of the Karlovac Church-People's Assembly.[4]
Works
- Расток и како се њиме бојадише коса ("Growth and how hair is dyed"),
- Алкаличне баре у сомборској околини ("Alkaline ponds in the Sombor area"),
- Сремско вино, ("Srem wine"),
- Петроварадинска чесма ("Petrovaradin fountain"),
- Појаве при грађењу бермета и израђивање екстракта ("Occurrences during the construction of bermet and production of extracts"),
- Баре у Бачкој ("Ponds in Bačka"),
- Фрушкогорски извори и помени о њима у старој књижевности ("Fruška Gora springs" and mentions of them in old literature"),
- Производња ракије у нашем народу ("Production of brandy in our people"),
- Пијаћа вода како се набавља и испитује ("Drinking water as it is procured and tested"),
- Артески бунар у Сомбору ("Artesian well in Sombor"),
- Земља у Бачкој ("Land in Bačka"),
Mita Petrović was especially committed to the popularization of natural sciences in the rational cultivation of the land. So he wrote: "On knowing the country", "On repairing the country", etc. He also wrote literary reviews, reviews, papers and travelogues. While studying in Prague, he collaborated in the Czech magazine "Politika", and sent "Letters from the Road" to the newspaper Pančevac. His pedagogical articles were published in various scholastic journals and periodicals in Serbia and abroad.
Literature
- Narodna enciklopedija srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka, Zagreb, 1924-1929.
- V. Aleksijević: Contemporaries and Consequences of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić: bio-bibliographic material. The manuscript is kept in the Department of Special Funds of the National Library in Belgrade. R 425/10 (V. Aleksijević).
- V. Kunc: "M. Petrović, a prominent literary, pedagogical and scientific worker - our meritorious chemist". Bulletin of the Chemical Society 20 (1955).
- I. Gutman, D. Prodanović: "Mita Petrović - chemist from Sombor", Phlogiston 5 (9) (2000) 123–142.
- I. Gutman, D. Prodanović:" Manuals and the first agrochemical analyzes in Bačka professor Mita Petrović". In: Natural and Mathematical Sciences in Serbs 1850–1918. Novi Sad, 2001. p. 219–229.
- "Life and work of Serbian Scientists", # 8, SANU, 2002, p. 29–60 (I. Gutman, D. Prodanović).
External links
- Short biography on the SANU website
References
- ^ Prodanovic, D. (Institut za tehnologiju nuklearnih i drugih mineralnih sirovina; Gutman, I. (Prirodno-matematicki fakultet (October 4, 2001). "The handbooks and the first soil chemical analysis for agriculturists in Backa [Serbia, Yugoslavia] of professor Mita Petrovic". Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, Ogranak – via agris.fao.org.
- ^ "Petrovic Mita Dimitrije". www.sanu.ac.rs.
- ^ "MITA PETROVIĆ – PRVI SOMBORSKI PRIRODNJAK – Ravnoplov".
- ^ Тодоровић, Жељко (November 29, 2017). "Мита Петровић". Српска енциклопедија.