Grigorije Račanin

Grigorije Račanin (Serbian: Григорије Рачанин; Bajina Bašta, Serbia, after 1668 - Szentendre, Habsburg monarchy, after 1739) was a Serbian monk and writer. He is best remembered for his travelogue on rafting in the Balkans in 1739.[1] He was a contemporary of Gavrilo Stefanović Venclović,[2] also a member of the Rača monastery and its literary School of Rača.

A copy of his major work -- Dravom i Dunavom od Osijeka do Krajove u Rumuniji—is archived in the Narodna biblioteka Srbije (National Library of Serbia) in Belgrade. The original manuscript is now lost, though a copy [3] testifies to the existence of a travelogue manuscript written by him after taking a trip along the "Drava and Danube from Osijek to Krajova in Romania" and back in 1739 as the title suggests.[4]

Monk Grigorije Račanin lived and worked in the scriptorium of the old Rača monastery in Bajina Bašta before settling in Szentendre.

Works
  • Dravom I Dunavom od Osijeka to Krajove u Ruminiji, 1739 [1]
  • Panonijom s krstom račanskim, vol.I-III[5]
  • Religious and secular texts.

See also

References
  1. "Index Biografije" (PDF). maticasrpska.org. Matica Srpska.
  2. "Književna istorija". Obod. April 27, 1997 – via Google Books.
  3. Cvetanović, Vladimir (April 27, 2001). Књижевност старе и jужне Србиjе до другог светског рата: Зборник радова. Институт за књижевност и уметност. ISBN 9788670950832 – via Google Books.
  4. fakultet, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu Filozofski (April 27, 1973). "Godisnjak" – via Google Books.
  5. уметности, Српска академија наука и (April 27, 2001). "Годишњак". Академија – via Google Books.

Sources
  • Skerlić, Jovan (1921). Istorija srpske književnosti. Beograd.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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