ПИСМА УРОША МИЛАНКОВИЋА ИЗ РУКОПИСНЕ ЗАОСТАВШТИНЕ МИЛАНА ШЕВИЋА
THE LETTERS OF UROŠ MILANKOVIĆ FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF MILAN ŠEVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: In order to support the reaffirmation and re-actualisation of the works of philosopher Uroš Milanković (Dalj 1800 – Vienna 1849), from the manuscript legacy of Milan Šević, in this work, we bring three original letters that he sent as a soldier to his parents, and the details from his written correspondence with Ljudevit Gaj, one of the central figures of the pan-Slavist Illyrian Movement. Explaining the fate of the original Milanković’s manuscripts and their transcripts, and analyzing in detail three of his private and one business letter, this paper offers a new reading of the forgotten material, which has the value of first-class evidence of its author and the time in which it was created. The letters of Uroš Milanković testify about private correspondence as a type of family and business communication, in which we can reconstruct certain aspects of the daily life of their author. In addition to the previously presented available and preserved philosophical works, as well as the recently discovered poetry of Uroš Milanković, we can now introduce the philosopher as a private and as a public figure of his time: as a typical member of a Serbian citizen’s family of the first half of the nineteenth century, and as a writer dedicated to destiny of his works.

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