Bozidar Knezevic was born on
March 7, 1862 in Ub, where he attended the elementary school. Then he went to
grammar school to Belgrade, where he also graduated at Grande Ecole at the
Department of History and Language.As history professor, he taught in Uzice,
Nis, Cacak, Sabac, and Belgrade.
Bozidar Knezevic was one of the
greatest Serbian minds,literarian
historian, and philosopher.[1]
He lived and worked in extremely tough
conditions. He spent the best part of his life in the state's interior ,
and he spent those twenty years in very difficult conditions. His whole life was
marked by extreme poverty , being forced to doing the difficult work to support
himself during his studies , and with extremely bad professor’s position, and also he took care
for his family and for his brother's family. He was forced to change his
teacher’s place of work frequently by
the order of the educational authorities
from one grammar school to another (
from Uzice in Niš Cacak , Kragujevac , again in Cacak and Sabac ). What unabled
him to build a career and life and to get the necessary recognition of other
scientists and thinkers was also the lack of necessary resources for research
and translation works. Not only did he he have to accept that fact, but he also had to put up with constant traps from academic
circles.[2]
He saw religion as the base of philosophy and science.
The most significant works of
his are: The History Principles, Thoughts, Historian Calender, About the
Eastern Nations in general. He
translated the works of English philosophers Bacon, Carlyle, and McCauley.
He died in Belgrade, in February 18, 1905.[3] The city library was named
after Bozidar Knezevic.
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