Vuk Vrčević
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| Born |
February 26, 1811 Risan in Boka Kotorska, Habsburg Monarchy (today Montenegro) |
| Died | August 13, 1882 (aged 71) Dubrovnik |
| Occupation | linguist |
Vuk Vrčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук Врчевић, Boka Kotorska, 1811–1882 Dubrovnik) was a Montenegrin Serb collector of lyric poetry and companion of Vuk Karadžić, the famed linguist and reformer of the Serbian language. He also translated into Serbian the poetical work of Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapessi, better known by his pseudonym Metastasio (1698–1782).
Vuk Vrčević was born at Risan in Boka Kotorska, then under the rule of the Habsburg Monarchy, on 26 February 1811. His family was of Serbian origin, and was settled in Boka Kotorska from time immemorial. His parents were in poor circumstances, and he owed his education to his own perseverance. He early developed a gift for languages, becoming familiar not only with Old Slavonic, Russian and Greek, but also Turkish, Latin, Italian, French and German (thus mastering all the languages spoken by the foreign invaders of his Serbian homeland during the early stages of the 19th century). When he was twenty years old Vrčević's father, a well-respected clerk and schoolteacher who was battling tuberculosis, died suddenly in 1831, leaving his mother and 13 siblings in his care. That same year they all moved to Budva, where Vrčević's first job was in a merchant's office as an agent of a trading company, thanks to his uncle's connections. In 1835 Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was living in nearby Kotor at the time. It was there that Vrčević first made an acquaintance with the great man who had already started to reform and standardize the Serbian language, and became his lifelong collaborator in collecting national folk-songs and tales. Together with Vuk Popović he collected srbulje in Herzegovina and Montenegro. Three Vuks (Karadžić, Popović and Vrčević) with support of Russian scholars collected almost all remaining srbulje from Montenegro.
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