Vasa Živković

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Vasilije "Vasa" Živković
Print of Živković c. 1887
Born
Vasilije Živković

(1819-01-31)31 January 1819
Pančevo, Austrian Empire
Died25 June 1891(1891-06-25) (aged 72)
Pančevo, Austria-Hungary
OccupationOrthodox Priest

Vasilije "Vasa" Živković (1819–1891) was a

Serbian culture for his role in collecting verses from oral traditions of his people. His literary opus sustained only half of his poems to be printed since he was prone to self-criticism. His contemporaries were poets Jovan Ilić, father of Vojislav Ilić
, Stevan Vladislav Kačanski, and many others.

Biography

Vasilije Živković was born in the town of

1848 Revolution[1] siding with the Austrian emperor against the Hungarian insurgents. Živković represented the constituents of Pančevo and the area at the Karlovci Sabor
during an important period and, from 1864 on, was performing diplomatic duties at the time when the affairs of the Serbs in Banat attracted unusual amounts of attention throughout Europe. In 1868 he was elevated to archpriest.

In an award-winning autobiography From Immigrant to Inventor (published by

electro-mechanics
in Prague in 1872 become too heavy a burden for his parents.

Živković died at Pančevo on 25 June 1891.[1] His closing years were marked by intrigue and sadness. Živković's suffered from mental duress, arising mainly from the political opposition his sympathy with Serb revolutionary ideas of the time brought on him.

Works

Živković began to contribute to the Pančevo reviews as early as 1838 , and his verses found their way into most of the Serbian literary periodicals favorable to the Romantic poets and writers. Having begun, however, to write under the influence of

Schiller
. His style shows the influence of Schiller, of whom he was a diligent disciple, according to literary critic Jovan Skerlić. His first volume of poems appeared in 1856–1858, and among numerous later volumes are his Collected Poems, published posthumously in Belgrade in 1907, in several tomes.

Živković was a very patriotic poet, and wrote lyrics that are still popular with Serbs today, who continue to sing them, not necessarily remembering the author. Some of his songs, such as Rado ide Srbin u vojnike and Or'o klikće sa visine, became hymns in his own lifetime. Even though many of his poems have entered into the annals of Serbian national patriotic opus, he is not very well known, both inside and outside of Serbia.

References

  1. ^ a b c Božidar Kovaček (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. pp. 594–595.
  • Duško Kovačević, Vasa Živković : život, rad i pesništvo. Narodna biblioteka
    ISBN 86-7035-039-4
    .
  • Jovan Skerlić, Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti / History of Modern Serbian Literature (Belgrade, 1914, 1921), pages 198–199.
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