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Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović was a Serbian writer, translator and Enlightenment thinker who promoted writing in the vernacular Serbian language rather than Church Slavonic. After decades of travel and study across Europe, he joined the First Serbian Uprising and became the first minister of education of Revolutionary Serbia, helping to found the Great School in Belgrade in 1808.
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