Аутобиографија Константина Пејчића
The Autobiography of Konstantin Pejčić

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a critical edition of the autobiography of Konstantin (Kosta) Pejčić, M.D., doctor, author, and national worker. Pejčić was an extremely prominent Hungarian Serb from the first half of the 19th century — he was a personal physician of the Metropolitans Stratimirović and Stanković, and member of the Society of Serb Slavs, Literature Department of theMatica Srpska, SerbianMedical Society, as well as many local societies and organizations. As a practitioner, he worked on educating people, and he is responsible for establishment of a health culture among the Serbs in Hungary. For many years, he served with distinction as a president, lifetime member, and lifetime president, of the oldest Serbian singing society—Serbian Church Singing Society in Pančevo, supervisor of the Tekelianum in Pest, director of the Serb elementary schools and one of the patrons of the Sremski Karlovci Philosophical Gymnasium, as well as the president of the Serb Orthodox Church-School Municipality n Pančevo. In the 1872 Autobiography, besides descriptions of his school, student, family and professional life, Pejčić devoted most of the text to his role in the Serb movement during the 1848/49 Revolution, and some events related to it, which is most interesting for the researchers of this period. The data gains in importance because of the loss of Pejčić's memoir work, Outlines of the History of the Serb NationalMovement inAustria 1848 and 1849, which contained historical sources and many data about this movement, in which he took active part, first as vice-president, and then as president of the Pančevo County Peoples' Committee, and member of theWar Council.

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