Dositej Obradovic

Dositej (Dositheus) Dimitrije Obradović (1742? – 1811) was a Serbian author, writer and translator.

Born Dimitrije Obradović in the village of Čakovo in Banat, on February 17, 1757 he became a monk in the Serb Orthodox monastery of Hopovo (in Srem) and acquired the name Dositej (Dositheus). He lived there until November 2, 1760. He travelled the world for forty years after that: he went to Dalmatia, Corfu, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Romania, France, Russia, England, Italy. He finally returned to Belgrade where he died.

Obradović had learned classical Greek, Latin, modern Greek, German, English, French, Russian, Albanian, Romanian and Italian.

Works

• Pismo Haralampiju, 1783
• Život i priključenija, 1783; 1788
• Sovjeti zdravog razuma, 1784
• Basne, 1788
• Pesma o izbavljenju Srbije, 1789
• Sobranije, 1793
• Etika, 1803
• Pesma na insurekciju Serbijanov, 1804
• Mezimica, 1818
• Ižica, 1830