Gavrilo Vitković (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Витковић; January 28, 1829 – July 25, 1902) was an engineer, historian, professor and collector of old manuscripts. He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society.
Gavrilo Vitković | |
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| Born | Гаврило Витковић January 28, 1829 |
| Died | July 25, 1902 (aged 73) |
| Nationality | Austrian, Serbian |
| Occupation(s) | an engineer, historian, professor and collector of old manuscripts |
| Known for | being a member of the Serbian Learned Society |
Biography
editAfter graduating from the University of Budapest, Vitković worked as an engineer in Smederevo and Šabac. Later, he taught engineering in secondary schools in Kragujevac and Belgrade. And in his spare time he collected original documents and manuscripts mostly about 18th- and 19th- century people from Serbia and granted his collection to the National Library of Serbia.[1]
References
edit- ^ Radović, Slobodan (2005). About the donation of Gavrilo Vitković to the National Library (PDF). p. 131. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
f Gavrilo Vitković, historian and passionate collector of old Manuscripts, which, in December 1901, he addressed to Dobroslav Ružić, Librarian of the National Library and eminent national worker. In this Paper, the basic biographic data of Vitković, as a collector of antiques, are given