Ilarion Ruvarac
Ilarion Ruvarac was historian and Orthodox priest, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Ruvarac introduced the critical methods into Serbian historiography. He was archimandrite of Grgeteg monastery. His three brothers were all distinguishedthe eldest, Lazar Ruvarac, as a high government official the second, Kosta Ruvarac , as a writer and literary critic and the youngest, Dimitrije Ruvarac, as a historian, Orthodox clergyman, politician and one of the most active publishers of his time.
Jovan Ruvarac was born at Sremska Mitrovica onSeptember 1832 to Very Reverend Vasilije Ruvarac and his wife Julijana, ne evi. He had three brothers, Lazar, Kosta and Dimitrije. His childhood was spent at Stari Slankamen and Stari Banovac in Srem, where he went to grammar school. In 1847 his family moved from Banovac to Karlovci and later to Vienna, where he completed his high school education at the Gymnasium of Karlovci and a gymnasium in Vienna before he enrolled at the University of Viennas School of Law in 1852. At the same time, he studied history, a passion of his going back to high school days when two of his professors, Jakov Geri and Aleksandar Stojakovi, instilled in him a curiosity that remained with him for the rest of his life. In Vienna in the early 1850s he met poet Branko Radievi, philologist Vuk Karadi, and historian Leopold von Ranke. After graduating with a law degree in 1856, he enrolled at the Theological Seminary of Saint Arsenius in Sremski Karlovci, graduat
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