![]() ![]() He was one of the founders of the first Serbian high school, the Velika škola in Belgrade. In 1806 he left Trieste and went to Serbia to offer concrete help in building new institutions. During the First Serbian Uprising he gave both financial and moral support to the leaders of the movement. In the 1780s and 1790s he wrote a series of works popularizing the philosophical ideas of the Enlightenment, especially in the form of moral tales and parables. ![]() In 1782 he left his monastic order and enrolled at the University of Halle, where he was strongly encouraged to write and publish his own works. During these travels he learned Greek, German, English, Italian, and French, and enriched his knowledge in the fields of philosophy, the natural sciences and literature. Soon after, he traveled to Greece, Asia Minor, Italy, Germany, France, England, and Russia. He went to Zagreb to study Latin and became a teacher in Dalmatia. In 1760, with the blessing of his abbot, he left the monastery to pursue his education. In his early childhood his parents died and he was raised by a foster family. He was born Dimitrije Obradović, but was renamed Dositej in 1757 when he became a monk. About the authorĥ Dositej Obradović : Orthodox monk, writer, teacher, and politician. 2 Originally published: Venice, Pane Theodosios, 1804ĤReprinted in Dositej Obradović, Sabrana dela, vol. ![]()
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