ГЛИГОРИЈЕ ТРЛАЈИЋ - ПРВИ СРПСКИ ПРОФЕСОР ПРАВА
GLIGORIJE TRLAJIĆ - THE FIRST SERBIAN PROFESSOR OF LAW

Summary/Abstract: Gligorije Trlajić is one of the unjustifieldy forgotten learned Serbs of the end of XVIII and the beginning of the XIX century. He was one of the first holders of a doctorate of legal sciences and, probably, the first Serbian university professor. His courses were legal history and encyclopedia of law at the universities of Harkov and Saint Petersburg. In addition he was interested in poetry and translation. He was bom in a needy family in the town of Mol in Voivodina. Eager to acquire knowledge, he run away from home and his sheep. After being accepted by a rich Serb in the town of Segedin, he graduated philosophy and then law. As a learned Serb, speaking four languages, he was noted by the Russians minister in Vienna - the count galicin. After Galicin's death he goes to Russia, Saint Petersburg. In the year of 1804 - namely the one of the uprising in Serbia against the Turks, he had the honour to deliver the opening lecture in the presence of Alexander the First, Russian emperor. We are in possession of his treatise in French relating to natural law and methodology of the history of law. It shows that he has mastered the ruling conceptions of law and history of his times. Although livin in a fedual empire, Trlajić sympathizes new ideas in Europe which destroy old systems and introduce the new ones. He has done translations of poetry and drama from French, Russian and German, but also wrote poetry encouriging fighters in the Uprising in Serbia, while pleading for concord. Tormented by nostalgia and with ailing health, he tried in 1811 to travel to his native land. However, he died of tuberculosis in Russian village Resnoe in 1811, when he was fourty five.

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