Julijana Radivojevic

Julijana Radivojević née Vijatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јулијана Радивојевић; January 6, 1798 – 1837[http://www.knjizenstvo.rs/magazine.php?text=31 Стеван Радовановић: Српске песникиње 19. века]) is considered the first Serbian woman journalist.{{cite book |last1=Petrović |first1=Jelena |title=Women's Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia: The Politics of Love and Struggle |date=1 October 2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-00142-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HwlxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA126 |access-date=9 March 2022 |language=en}} She also wrote poetry.

Biography

Julijana Vijatović was born in 1798,{{efn|According to Wurzbach's biographical lexicon, the year of Julijana's birth is February 2, 1794 or 1799.Wurzbach, Constantin von: "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", Wien 1872.}} in Vršac, then part of Habsburg monarchy, where her father was a Serbian officer of the Imperial Austrian Army serving in the Military Frontier, the buffer between the Austrian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. After her parents died, Radivojević went to live with her uncle Aleksandar Nako (her mother's brother) in Vienna where she graduated from college. During the eight years in Vienna, she "almost forgot her mother's tongue", she wrote. In 1821, she moved to Pest and there she met and married Maks Radivojević, a tailor,[http://www.istorijskabiblioteka.com/art:julijana-radivojevic Историјска библиотека – Јулијана Радивојевић] and became acquainted with Serbian literature and national history."Босанска вила", Сарајево 1901. године

Career

Radivojević is best known for editing the small almanac Talia, published in Pest in 1829.Стојан Новаковић: "Библиографија српска...", Београд 1868. године She was the first woman to work on a literary almanac in the Serbian language. She also published the article "Good advice for Serbian daughters", based on Ebersberg's work "Friendly council for more mature female youth". There are also some manuscripts left with her poems; 14 sheets of paper.Константин Вурцбах: "Биографски лексикон", (на немачком) Беч 1872. године In 1832, Radivojević met the Czech writer Jan Kolar, who recorded her biographical data.

The Radivojevićs appeared in Pest in 1828 as subscribers to Avram Brankovic's book on the cosmos.Аврам Бранковић: "Преглед или леточислено означеније...", Будим 1828. године In the list of renumbered Serbian books in 1829, it can be seen that she ordered them in Pančevo, as Mrs. "Julia Radivojević, a Serbian writer".Јефта Поповић: "Разна дела", Будим 1829. године As a buyer of Serbian books, Branković met that "Serbian writer" in 1840 in Pest.

Very little is known about her life and works of literature. According to Milorad Pavić, she died after 1837.

Monographs

Cveta ili dobarь sovѣt serbskimь ktьrma 1300–2000
Talia za godinu 1829 od Iuliane Radivoevičь rožd. Viatovičь u Pešti. Vъ Budimѣ pis. kr. vseuč. (1829), 16°, 58 str. 1829

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References

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Magdalena Koh, Kad sazremo kao kultura... (When We Mature as a Culture...), Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, 2012.