Svetozar Marković

Svetozar Marković ( born September 9, 1846 in Zaječar, Serbia, † February 26, 1875 in Trieste, Italy ) was a journalist, politician and first Serbian socialist.

He attended high school in Kragujevac and Belgrade to then take an academic career. With a state scholarship in his pocket, he finally arrives to Saint Petersburg and Zurich, where he first comes into contact with socialist groups and dealt with the scientific Marxism.

Early starts Marković to publish. After the scholarship shall be suspended for membership in a subversive organization in Novi Sad, it starts sharper deal with social conditions in Serbia. He attacks mainly the ruling bureaucracy. From 1871-1872 he publishes the magazine Radenik (German workers) out, and in 1873 the magazine Javnost.

Socialist and literary critic

In addition to his role as the first socialist theorists of Serbia, he is also literary history of significance. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Serbian realism and employed himself with the problems of literary studies. Contrary to the romantic tendencies in Serbia, he defended in his writings Pevanje i mišljenje ( thinking and poetry, 1871) and Realni pravac u nauci i životu ( The realistic way of knowledge and of life, 1872) the realistic literary tradition.

Marković feels as a socialist called to change with the help of revolutionary masses, the social relations. As his most important work na istoku (Eng. Serbia to the east) is considered the critical writing Srbija, in which he deals with the situation in what was then Serbia.

Sentenced in 1874 for State insult to nine months' imprisonment, ill Marković shortly thereafter of tuberculosis. He dies at the age of 28 in Trieste.

Effect

As a literary critic and committed socialist influenced Marković sustain the development of the Serbian writer scene. Today, he is considered an important intellectual in the Serbian intellectual history of the late 19th century. In Serbia, many schools and streets are still named after him.

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• Literature ( Serbian)
• Politicians (19th Century )
• Born in 1846
• Died in 1875
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