Avram Brankovic

Avram Branković or Abraham Brankovits (Serbian Cyrillic: Аврам Бранковић; Vranjevo-Novi Bečej, 1799 - Brusnica, July 1831) was a Hungarian official in Buda of Serbian descent. He is best remembered as an excellent translator from German to Serbian.

His life

Son of Antonije Branković. He studied law in Karlovica and Szeged and received his degree in Jurisprudence from the Grande école in Pest, then he went on to perfect his Hungarian in Kežmarok and German in Vienna. In 1830 he went to the Serbia and sought employment as a district clerk at the newly-established printing press where he met many literary figures, including Vuk Karadžić, Marija Milutinovic Punktatorka, Julijana Radivojevic, Georgije Magarašević and others.^[1]^[2]

Avram Branković is best known for one of the oldest books that deals with the problems of ethnologic characteristics in Serbia -- "Characteristic or nation description" -- which was published in 1827 in Buda, only two years after Noveise zemleopisanie by Joakim Vujić was also published in Buda.^[3]

His works

Charakteristik aller Nationen or "Characteristics or nation description", Buda, 1827^[4]^[3]
Pregled i lětočisleno označenie u carstvu istorie svemirne: od početka sveta do danas, Buda, 1828^[5]^[6]
Boj kod Novarina, Buda, 1829 (The Battle of Navarre, translated from German:Die Schlacht von Navarin)^[7]
Novi zabavni kalendar, Buda, 1830 (New Serbian entertainment calendar.^[8]^[9]

Sources

József Szinnyei: The Life and Works of Hungarian Writers I. (Aachs – Bzenszki). Budapest: Hornyánszky. 1891. (Abraham Biankovič)
József Szinnyei: The Life and Works of Hungarian Writers I. (Aachs – Bzenszki). Budapest: Hornyánszky. 1891 (Abraham Brankovits)
This is the case in Novi Bečej i Novobečejce

Additional notes

Pál Gulyás: The Life and Works of Hungarian Writers. Bp., Association of Hungarian Librarians and Archivists, 1939-2002. From volume 7 to press order. János Viczián.
Das geistige Ungarn, Biographisches Lexikon. Hrsg. Oscar von Krücken, Imre Parlagi. Wien-Leipzig, W. Braumüller, 1918.
Pallas the great lexicon, an encyclopedia of all knowledge. 1-16 k. (17-18 deputies. Edited by József Bokor). Bp., Pallas-Révai, 1893-1904.

References

Translated and adapted from Hungarian Wikipedia: Avram Branković

^ Danica Ilirska. 1838.
^ Danica horvatska, slavonska i dalmatinska. 1838.
^ ^a ^b "Google Scholar".
^ Charakteristik aller Nationen. Slovima Sveuchilishta Peshtanskog. 1827.
^ Преглед и леточислено означение у царству историе свемирне, од почетка света до данас. Pismeni Kral. Universiteta Peštanskog. 1828.
^ Brankovic, Avram (1828). "Pregled ... (Chronologische Uebersicht der Weltgeschichte vom Anfange der Welt bis zum heutigen Tage.) (Serb.)".
^ Boj ... (Die Schlacht von Navarin oder die Zerstörung der türkischen Flotte.) (Serb.). Universitätsdr. 1829.
^ Wiener slawistischer Almanach. A. A. Hansen-Löve. 1992.
^ Slavica: Beiträge zum Studium der Sprache, Literatur, Kultur, Volks- und Altertumskunde der Slaven. C. Winter. 1933.

[1] Danica Ilirska. 1838.

[2] Danica horvatska, slavonska i dalmatinska. 1838.

[auto-3] "Google Scholar".

[4] Charakteristik aller Nationen. Slovima Sveuchilishta Peshtanskog. 1827.

[5] Преглед и леточислено означение у царству историе свемирне, од почетка света до данас. Pismeni Kral. Universiteta Peštanskog. 1828.

[6] Brankovic, Avram (1828). "Pregled ... (Chronologische Uebersicht der Weltgeschichte vom Anfange der Welt bis zum heutigen Tage.) (Serb.)".

[7] Boj ... (Die Schlacht von Navarin oder die Zerstörung der türkischen Flotte.) (Serb.). Universitätsdr. 1829.

[8] Wiener slawistischer Almanach. A. A. Hansen-Löve. 1992.

[9] Slavica: Beiträge zum Studium der Sprache, Literatur, Kultur, Volks- und Altertumskunde der Slaven. C. Winter. 1933.

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