Simo Budmani

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Dubrovnik
Occupation
  • Merchant
  • Author

Simo Budmani (18th century) was a Dubrovnik-born Serbian merchant and author who lived and worked in Novi Pazar, though intermittently traveled throughout the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire as a Levant merchant.[1]Pero Budmani was related to Simo Budmani.

He is remembered for his Serbian-Italian Dictionary and also travels in the first decades of the 18th century across the Turkish Empire, and as this merchant was also interested in philology, during his long stay in Novi Pazar [2]he accumulated much knowledge and wrote about it. At the same time, he made a fortune as a trader.[3]

Simo Budmani is an offshoot of a Dubrovnik family that was not originally from the city, but possibly from a village in Konavle. The family was known for trading with merchants from the Levant[4]. Though of distant Italian descent, they always referred to themselves as Serbs of the Roman Catholic faith.

Cruising the Balkans, as he was taken by the trade he was engaged in, he, on various sides, got to know the regions, people and customs, and gradually acquired great wisdom of life. In 1722-1723, he was in Novi Pazar, in 1724 in Ruse, Bulgaria, from where he made beeswax. In 1726 he was in Wallachia, and the following year, in 1727, he came from Niš "with buffalo skins, wax and wolf skins"; in 1729 he was in Vidin, then in 1730, 1732–1733 and in 1736 in Novi Pazar, in 1740, in Prokuplje, and in 1749 again in Novi Pazar.

Simo Budmani's Novi Pazar records, in the form they have now, represent a collection of various materials, and not a single work. That material is mostly lexicographic. The initial part of them is occupied by the Italian-Serbian dictionary, with over six hundred and fifty words and more than sixty sentences. The earliest mention of his work was made in the book entitled Narodne pjesme iz starijih, najčešće primorskih zapisa I ("Folk Songs from Older, Mostly Coastal Records I) by Valtazar Bogišić which Srpsko učeno društvo (Serbian Learned Society) published in 1878.[5]

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