Stefan Stefanović

Stefan Stefanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Стефановић), (1805–1828, exact dates unknown) was a Serbian writer who lived and worked in Novi Sad and Pest.

Biography

Stefan Stefanović is said to have been only nineteen years of age when he wrote the 1825 tragic drama Death of Uroš V the Last Serbian Tsar, which would place his birth about the year 1805. He was Vuk Karadžić's desciple. He wrote an Ode to Vuk Karadžić in the same reformed language that Vuk was advocating, and had it published in Srpski Letopis in 1826. Stefanović read German authors in the original language and translated them. He was an ardent admirer of Schiller. He preferred a life of study and writing to the military service in which his peers were distinguished. He basically lived all his life in Novi Sad where he was born and Pest where he studied. There his time was also spent in literary pursuits, however short.

He died in 1827 or 1828, in Novi Sad, afflicted with tuberculosis.