Vasa Stajić

Vasa Stajić, philosopher

Vasa Stajić was a Serbian writer and philosopher. He was born in Mokrin in 1878, and died in Novi Sad in 1947 where he spent most of his life.[1] He was secretary of the Serbian Cultural Society from 1920-1922 and its president twice (1935-1936 and 1947). A statue of him appears in front of the Serbian Cultural Society.

Stajić wrote several biographies of famous people and families. He was one of the most important figures of modern cultural and political Vojvodina.

Early life

Monument to Vase Stajića, in Novi Sad

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. He graduated in 1902 in Budapest.

Adulthood

He propagated the ideas of Aleksandar Sandic and led the reformist Serbian national movement of young Vojvodina intellectuals.

Stajić worked for equality of Serbs in Hungary. He worked at New Serb until 1918 (this was the name of the publication of which he was publisher and financier), and was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison where he was held in a dungeon. In the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Yugoslavia, he worked against the neglect of national minorities in Vojvodina, as well as the neglect of Vojvodina as a whole. He published New Vojvodina.

The 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 installed on 23 October 2011. The monument was the work of sculptor Slobodan Bodulić.

He was buried in Dormition cemetery.

References

  1. ↑ "Vasa Stajić". Novi Sad City Guide. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
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