Avram Maksimović
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| Born | September 20, 1772 Sombor, Austrian Empire |
| Died | July 13, 1845 (aged 72) |
| Citizenship | Serbian |
| Occupation | Orthodox priest |
Avram Maksimović (Sombor, Austrian Empire, 20 September 1772 — Sombor, 13 July 1845) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and a catechist of the Teacher's College, better known as the Sombor Prepreparandija.[1] He wrote the first book on beekeeping in the Serbian language, before then everyhting was written in Old Church Slavonic, a common language of all Slavs.
Biography
The first Serbian beekeeper-writer, educator, priest, and exemplary economist, Avram Maksimović, was born in Sombor on 20 September 1772. After completing the seminary, he was ordained a deacon in 1790 in Novi Sad and first worked as a teacher and deacon in Sivac. In 1794, he became a priest and parish priest in Leđen (Riđica).[2] From there he came to Sombor in 1803, where he was a priest, and from 1829. until 1845. and a religious teacher at the Teachers' School. As a writer, he published a short poetic work in 1806: Obituary Letter for the Death of Ana, Daughter of Konstantin Janković, Senator of Sombor.[3]
He is one of the most famous Sombor residents of his time. In the then Leđen on the estate of the local chieftain Kovač, he learned and studied exemplary gardening, fruit growing, and beekeeping. When he came to Sombor, he bought 14 acres of arable land and developed a respectable economy on that land, which contributed greatly to the development of agriculture in the Sombor region. He fenced the property with baked bricks and decorated it with ornamental trees and shrubs, which surrounded the garden and nursery. Maksimović paid special attention to beekeeping; he kept bees on his beautiful farm. He was said to be the greatest "practical blacksmith" of his time; "our Ehrenfele".[4] In the old days, beekeeping was under the protection of the church itself. This Serbian writer wrote the first book on beekeeping, "The New Beekeeper", which he printed in Budapest, 1810. The book represents the first systematic work of its kind in our country and one of the best books of that time in that field.[5] The book was written at the instigation of Metropolitan Stefan Stratimirović.[6]
Avram Maksimović also played a significant role in the history of the Sombor Teachers' College (Preparandija). He initiated and advocated for the teachers' school from Szentendre, 1816, to move to Sombor and get a suitable building. The Sombor church community designated a house next to the Church of St. George as a preparandium, which it renovated and furnished.[7] And when, in the 1930s, this school was experiencing a major staffing crisis, Maksimović, as the only professor, with two other teachers (Mojsej Ignjatović from Novi Sad and his son Gavro Maksimović from Sombor)[8], took over the entire teaching of this school, until it received a new and ready teaching staff in 1831. He was the first president of the Sombor Serbian Reading Room.[9] In 1828, Maksimović emphasized that he was a member of the Bavarian (Frauendorff?) Practical Gardening Society.[10]
He died in Sombor on 13 July 1845.
References
- ↑ name="reader">cite web|title=Avram Maksimović|url=http://www.sombor.rs/avram-maksimovic%7Cwork=sombor.rs%7Cpublisher=Grad Sombor|accessdate=7 novembar 2013.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020233201/http://www.sombor.rs/avram-maksimovic%7Carchive-date=20 oktombar 2011|url-status=dead|df=}}
- ↑ Grigorije Trlajić: "Numa...", Budim 1801.
- ↑ "Stražilovo", Novi Sad 1887.
- ↑ "Strazilovo", Novi Sad, January 29, 1887.
- ↑ Avram Maksimović & 2010., pp. 5.
- ↑ name="reading room"
- ↑ "Školski glasnik", Novi Sad 1913.
- ↑ "Glas naroda", Novi Sad 1874.
- ↑ name="reading room"
- ↑ Vuk St. Karadžić: "Miloš Obrenović, Prince of Serbia...", Budim 1828.
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