Jovan Sterija Popović
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13 January 1806 Werschetz (Serbian: Vršac), Austrian Empire (today Serbia) |
| Died | 10 March 1856 (aged 50) Werschetz (Serbian: Vršac), Austrian Empire (today Serbia) |
| Occupation | Playwright, poet, pedagogue |
| Literary movement | Classicism, Romanticism, Realism |
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Jovan Sterija Popović (pronounced [jɔ̌v̞an stɛ̂ːrija pɔ̌pɔv̞it͡ɕ]; Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Стерија Поповић; 13 January 1806 – 10 March 1856) was a Serbian playwright, poet and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School. Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as the one of the leading Serbian intellectuals. He is regarded as one of the best comic playwrights in Serbian literature.
Popović was born in Werschetz (Vršac), in the Temesch County of Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary (now Serbia). His father Šterija (meaning "star" in Greek), after whom he was nicknamed, was a Greek merchant. His maternal grandfather was known painter and poet Nikola Nešković, whom he would later write the biography of.
Popović attended grammar schools in Vršac, Karlowitz (Sremski Karlovci), Temeschwar (Timișoara) and Ofenpesth (Budapest). He studied law at Käsmark (Kežmarok). After he finished his studies (1830), he worked as a professor, and from 1835, when he passed his bar examination, he returned to his hometown where he first taught Latin, then opened his law practice. Like many other intellectuals of Vojvodina, driven by patriotic feelings, he decided to work in the Principality of Serbia. He began to write historical dramas but soon switched to comedy. In 1840 he went to Kragujevac to study at the pedagogic school of natural law. In the same year he, he moved to Belgrade, where he would spend eight years, teaching at what was then the most advanced school in Serbia, Grande École (Belgrade Higher School, future University).
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