Dositej Obradovic was a Serbian writer, educator and reformer of the revolutionary period of national awakening and revival.
In his numerous writings, he exposed the 18th-century enlightenment ideas, and the most important philosophical, pedagogical, socio-political, cultural and educational issues of the time adapted to the needs of the culture and education of his people. One of the most important Dossier's writings is the Letter to Haralampi, in which he explains his enlightening ideas: the national language as a literary book, the printing of books by the civic script, the importance of education; then the first autobiography in Serbian literature Life and Connected, then the Soviets of the Health of Reason, Basna, Ethics, the Sobranies of various natural-science skills and others. On the news of the First Serbian Uprising he came into contact with Karadjordje and came to Serbia in 1807 to help with the knowledge of the new state. He acted as a diplomat, fighting for the Serbian insurrectionary insurrections, the founder of the Great School [1] in 1808 - the latter University and the Bogoslovija in 1810, and as a member of the Sovereign Soviet was the first Minister of Education in Serbia. He died in Belgrade in 1811 and was buried in the port of the Cathedral Church.
The monument to Dositej Obradovic is now in the Academic Park, together with the monuments to prominent Serbian scientists Josif Pancic and Jovan Cvijic, in the immediate vicinity of faculty buildings of the Belgrade University.
