Sima Milutinović Sarajlija

{{Short description|Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian and adventurer}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Sima Milutinović Sarajlija

| image = Sima_Milutinovic_Sarajlija.jpg

| pseudonym = Simeun Milutinov, Simeun Mil. Simović, Simša M. Sirotan, Simo Milutinović, Čubro Čojkovič, Čubro Čojković-Crnogorac, Srbo Srbović, S. M. Crnogorac, Si. M. Saraj. Černogo. Herak, S. M. Simović, Č.Č.Č. Exauditus

| birth_name = Simeon Milutinović

| birth_date = {{birth date|1791|10|03|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sarajevo, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1847|12|30|1791|10|03|df=y}}

| death_place = Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, Ottoman Empire

| occupation = Poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat.

| nationality = Serbian

| period =

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| subject =

| movement = Romanticism

| notableworks =

}}

Simeon "Sima" Milutinović "Sarajlija" ({{lang-sr-cyr| Симеон "Сима" Милутиновић "Сарајлија"}}, {{IPA|sh|sǎːʋa milutǐːnɔʋit͡ɕ sarǎjlija|pron}}; 3 October 1791 – 30 December 1847) was a poet, hajduk, translator, historian and adventurer.{{Cite web|url=http://bbns.rs/essays/sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-poeta-i-ustanik|title=Есеј "Сима Милутиновић Сарајлија - Поета и устаник" · Бројчана (Дигитална) Баштина Новог Сада|website=bbns.rs|access-date=2019-12-11}}{{citation |contribution-url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/milutinovic-sarajlija-sima |contribution=Milutinović Sarajlija, Sima |title=Croatian Encyclopedia |year=1999–2009 |access-date=April 24, 2014 |publisher=Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža |language=hr}} Literary critic Jovan Skerlić dubbed him the first Serbian romantist.{{Cite web|url=https://iskra.co/kultura/nebom-osijani-pesnik-srpske-narodnosti-sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-171-godina-od-smrti/|title=НЕБОМ ОСИЈАНИ ПЕСНИК СРПСКЕ НАРОДНОСТИ: Сима Милутиновић Сарајлијa- 171 година од смрти|website=ИСКРА|access-date=2019-12-11}}

Life and work

Sima Milutinović was born in Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire in 1791, hence his nickname Sarajlija (The Sarajevan). His father Milutin{{Cite web|url=https://patriot.rs/na-danasnji-dan-1847-umro-sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-srpski-pesnik/|title=Na današnji dan 1847. umro SIMA MILUTINOVIĆ SARAJLIJA, srpski pesnik|last=PATriot|date=2017-12-30|website=Patriot|language=sr-RS|access-date=2019-12-11}} was from the village of Rožanstvo near Užice,{{Cite web|url=http://www.spc.rs/sr/o_njegoshu_njegovom_uchitelju_simu_milutinovitshu_sarajliji|title=О Његошу и његовом учитељу Симу Милутиновићу Сарајлији {{!}} Српска Православна Црква [Званични сајт]|website=www.spc.rs|access-date=2019-12-11}} which he left running away from the plague and eventually settled in Sarajevo, where he was married.{{Cite web|url=https://iskra.co/kultura/nebom-osijani-pesnik-srpske-narodnosti-sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-171-godina-od-smrti/|title=НЕБОМ ОСИЈАНИ ПЕСНИК СРПСКЕ НАРОДНОСТИ: Сима Милутиновић Сарајлијa- 171 година од смрти|website=ИСКРА|access-date=2019-12-11}}

When Sarajlija was a child, the family fled the town seeking because of a plague. They sought refuge at several locations in Bosnia and Slavonski Brod before ending up in Zemun, where Sima commenced primary education which he never completed.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-29 |title=Sima Milutinović Sarajlija: Njegošev učitelj i Geteov prijatelj |url=https://p-portal.net/sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-njegosev-ucitelj-i-geteov-prijatelj |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=P-portal |language=hr}} He attended a school in Szeged and was later expelled from gymnasium in Sremski Karlovci.{{Cite web|url=http://bbns.rs/essays/sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-poeta-i-ustanik|title=Есеј "Сима Милутиновић Сарајлија - Поета и устаник" · Бројчана (Дигитална) Баштина Новог Сада|website=bbns.rs|access-date=2019-12-11}}

During the First Serbian Uprising he was a scribe in Karađorđe's Governing Council (Praviteljstvujušći Sovjet). Sarajlija joined a guerilla group commanded by hajduk Zeka Buljubaša.{{Cite web|url=http://www.spc.rs/sr/o_njegoshu_njegovom_uchitelju_simu_milutinovitshu_sarajliji|title=О Његошу и његовом учитељу Симу Милутиновићу Сарајлији {{!}} Српска Православна Црква [Званични сајт]|website=www.spc.rs|access-date=2019-12-11}} It was in the heat of battles with Ottoman Turks that his first poems germinated. They were mostly lovesongs, inspired by his first great love - Fatima.Cite web|url=https://patriot.rs/na-danasnji-dan-1847-umro-sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-srpski-pesnik/|title=Na današnji dan 1847. umro SIMA MILUTINOVIĆ SARAJLIJA, srpski pesnik|last=PATriot|date=2017-12-30|website=Patriot|language=sr-RS|access-date=2019-12-11 After the collapse of the First Serbian Uprising he was a hajduk and teacher in Vidin. He also spent a year or two in a Turkish dungeon. After evading the Turks, he went to Chişinău (then part of Imperial Russia), where he remained, long enough to write The Serbian Maid. It is said that he sent reports to confidants of Miloš Obrenović I, Prince of Serbia concerning Karađorđe's followers in exile. In 1825 he went to Germany where he enrolled in the University of Leipzig, though he did not tarry there. Instead, a year later, he went back to Serbia to be a clerk in the employ of Prince Miloš but on arriving in Zemun, however, he turned about and went to Trieste, Kotor, and then Cetinje.

He arrived in Cetinje on 25 September 1827, and the Bishop of Montenegro took him in as a secretary.{{Cite web|url=http://www.spc.rs/sr/o_njegoshu_njegovom_uchitelju_simu_milutinovitshu_sarajliji|title=О Његошу и његовом учитељу Симу Милутиновићу Сарајлији {{!}} Српска Православна Црква [Званични сајт]|website=www.spc.rs|access-date=2019-12-11}} He also went among the tribes to dispense justice and settle disputes and took upon himself the education of Bishop's nephew Rade (Petar II Petrović-Njegoš). In 1829 Bjelice tribe struggled against Ozrinići and Kuće, two neighboring tribes, and his former pupil Petar II Petrović-Njegoš sent Sarajlija and Mojsije to negotiate peace among them.{{cite book|author1=Miloš Oben|author2=Michel Aubin|title=Njegoš i istorija u pesnikovom delu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpliAAAAMAAJ|access-date=7 May 2013|year=1989|publisher=Književne novine|page=63|isbn=9788639101480|quote=Бјелице су племе у Катунској нахији. Водили су 1829. оружану бор- бу са два суседна племена, Озринићима и Цуцама. Да би успоставио мир, Петар I је решио да им пошаље Симу Милутиновића и Мојсија }} Sarajlija remained in Cetinje for more than three years, until the spring of 1831. He came to Montenegro for another three times.

In 1836, he escorted Prince Miloš to Constantinople and went on to travel to Prague, Vienna and Budapest. He remained a while in Budapest and married Marija Popović-Punktatorka{{Cite web|url=http://bbns.rs/essays/sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-poeta-i-ustanik|title=Есеј "Сима Милутиновић Сарајлија - Поета и устаник" · Бројчана (Дигитална) Баштина Новог Сада|website=bbns.rs|access-date=2019-12-11}} (1810–1875), who was also a poet.

He died suddenly in Belgrade at the end of 1847. He was buried in the graveyard at St. Mark's Church.

Selected works

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Serbijanka, epic poem
Nekolike pjesnice, stare, nove, prevedene i sočinjene Simom Milutinovićem Sarajlijom, book of poems
Zorica, book of poems
Tragedija Obilić, epic poem about Miloš Obilić
Raspjevke Talfiji, book of poems
Dika crnogorska, drama
[http://www.rastko.rs/rastko-cg/povijest/sarajlija-istorija_crne_gore_c.html Istorija Crne Gore]: History of Montenegro
[https://books.google.com/books?id=ucYGAAAAQAAJ&dq=%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0+%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B3&pg=PA297 Pjevanija crnogorska i hercegovačka], collection of Serbian epic poetry from Montenegro and Herzegovina
Tragedija vožda Karađorđa, epic poem about Leader Karađorđe
Collected works published in 6 volumes{{Cite web|url=http://bbns.rs/essays/sima-milutinovic-sarajlija-poeta-i-ustanik|title=Есеј "Сима Милутиновић Сарајлија - Поета и устаник" · Бројчана (Дигитална) Баштина Новог Сада|website=bbns.rs|access-date=2019-12-11}}

Sima Milutinović Sarajlija

Life and work

Selected works

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