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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.
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]
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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.
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]