Vasa Stajić
Vasa Stajić was a Serbian writer and philosopher.
He was born in Mokrin in 1878, and died in Novi Sad in 1947,[1] where he was buried in the cemetery Dormition. In Novi Sad he spent most of the years of his life. He was secretary of the Serbian Cultural Society 1920-1922 and its president twice (1935-1936 and 1947). Among the statues built in front of the Serbian Cultural Society in Novi Sad, there is a statue of Stajića.
Stajić, among other things, from the archives wrote and wrote several volumes of books to NS biography (of famous people and families) by relevance has grown and the city itself. He was one of the most important figures of modern cultural and political Vojvodina.
Biography
He went to high school in Kikinda, Sremski Karlovci and Senj. As a student he was expelled from Karlovačka gymnasium. He studied law, then philosophy in Budapest, Paris and Leipzig, and graduated in 1902 in Budapest. Propagated the ideas of Professor Aleksandar Sandic and led the reformist Serbian national movement of young Vojvodina intellectuals.
Stajić worked for national equality of Serbs in Hungary, for "New Serb" until 1918 (this was the name of the list of which he was publisher and financier), and was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for years where he was imprisoned in a dungeon. Then, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Yugoslavia, he worked against the neglect of national minorities in Vojvodina, as well as neglect of Vojvodina as a whole. He published "New Vojvodina."
Vojvodina Club filed a formal initiative to build a monument to Stajić. The decision to construct the monument passed the Assembly of the City of Novi Sad, and was revealed on 23 October 2011. The monument was the work of sculptor Slobodan Bodulić.
References
- ↑ "Vasa Stajić". Novi Sad City Guide. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
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