Serbophilia
Serbophilia (Serbian: Србофилија, romanized: Srbofilija, literally love for Serbia and Serbs) is the admiration, appreciation or emulation of non-Serbian person who expresses a strong interest, positive predisposition or appreciation for the Serbian people, Serbia, Republika Srpska, Serbian language, culture or history. Its opposite is Serbophobia.
Artistic depiction of a July 1918 event in which a Serbian flag was flown over the White House alongside the U.S. one in a show of wartime solidarity; the only non-U.S. flags to have ever been flown over the White House are those of Serbia and France.
French poster from WWI
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History
World War I
During World War I, Serbophilia was present in western countries.[1]
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Political scientist Sabrina P. Ramet writes that Serbophilia in France during the 1990s was "traditional", partly as a response to the closeness between Germany and Croatia. Business ties continued during the war and fostered a desire for economic normalization.[2]
Serbophiles
- Jacob Grimm — German philologist, jurist and mythologist. Learnt Serbian in order to read Serbian epic poetry.[3][4]
- Archibald Reiss — German-Swiss publicist, chemist, forensic scientist, a professor at the University of Lausanne.[5]
- Victor Hugo — French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo wrote the speech Pour la Serbie.
- Alphonse de Lamartine — French author, poet, and statesman.[6][7]
- Helen of Anjou — French noblewoman who became queen consort of the Serbian Kingdom.
- Mircea I and Vlad III Dracula[8]
- Several notable composers used motifs from Serbian folk music and composed works inspired by Serbian history or culture, such as:
- Johannes Brahms— German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period.[9]
- Franz Liszt — Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era.[9]
- Arthur Rubinstein — Polish-American classical pianist.[9]
- Antonín Dvořák — Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition.[9]
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Russian composer of the Romantic period (See Serbo-Russian March).[9]
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five (See Fantasy on Serbian Themes).[9]
- Franz Schubert — Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.[9]
- Hans Huber — Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas.[9]
- Rebecca West (1892–1983) — British travel writer. Was described by American media as having a pro-Serbian stance.[10][11]
- Flora Sandes — British Irish volunteer in World War I.[11]
- Ruth Mitchell — American volunteer in the Chetniks, World War II. Sister of Billy Mitchell.[12][13][14]
- Robert De Niro— American actor[15]
- John Challis— English actor best known for portraying Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the BBC Television sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003) and its sequel/spin-off The Green Green Grass (2005–2009) [16]
- Peter Handke — Austrian novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize winner. Supported Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars.[17]
- Eduard Limonov — Russian writer and poet.[18][19]
- Ángel Pulido — Spanish physician, publicist and politician, who stood out as prominent philosephardite during the Restoration [20]
- Essad Pasha Toptani — Ottoman Albanian politician.[21]
- Anna Dandolo— Venetian noblewoman who became Queen of Serbia.[22]
- Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic — Polish poet and historian of the Baroque era.[23]
- Adam Jerzy Czartoryski — Polish nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author.
- Pavel Jozef Šafárik — Slovakian philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavistics.
- Ján Kollár — Slovakian writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.
- Ľudovít Štúr — Slovakian revolutionary politician and writer.
- Henry Bax-Ironside — British diplomat.[24]
- Eleftherios Venizelos — Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement.
- Dimitrios Karatasos — Greek armatolos who participated in the Greek War of Independence, and several other rebellions, seeking to liberate his native Greek Macedonia.[25]
- Herbert Vivian — British journalist and author of Servia: The Poor Man's Paradise and The Servian Tragedy: With Some Impressions of Macedonia.[26]
- Alexander Kolchak — Imperial Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer.[27]
- Yu Hua — Chinese author.[28]
- František Zach — Czech soldier and military theorist.[29]
Gallery
"A Threatening Situation", a comic published in the American newspaper the Brooklyn Eagle in July 1914
Departure for Serbia
WWI poster - Kosovo Day, June 28, 1916, published in solidarity with the Serb allies
WWI poster - Save Serbia (1915)
American poster of the Serbian Relief Fund, organised by Mabel Grouitch, asking for donations to help Serbia on the brink of famine.
References
- Dobbs, Michael (11 June 2000). "Blood Bath". Washington Post.
- Ramet, Sabrina P. (2018). Balkan Babel: The Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic (Fourth ed.). Routledge. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-42997-503-5.
- Donald Haase (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: G-P. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 531–. ISBN 978-0-313-33443-6.
- Selvelli, Giustina. "The Cultural Collaboration between Jacob Grimm and Vuk Karadžić. A fruitful Friendship Connecting Western Europe to the Balkans".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Boskovska, Nada (2017). Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-78673-073-2.
- Mićunović, Milica (28 November 2012). "How Serbia stunned Alphonse de Lamartine". Serbia.com.
- Maric, Natasa (19 March 2021). "Pourquoi la Serbie aime tant la France et la langue française". lefigaro.fr.
- Ion Pătroiu (1987). Marele Mircea Voievod. Editura Academiei Repubvlicii Socialiste România. p. 460.
- Tomić 2019.
- Victoria Glendinning (1988). Rebecca West: A Life. Fawcett Columbine. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-449-90320-9.
- Hammond, Andrew (2010). "Memoirs of conflict: British women travellers in the Balkans". Studies in Travel Writing. 14 (1): 70. doi:10.1080/13645140903465043. S2CID 162162690.
- "War". The Atlantic. Atlantic Monthly Company. 1946. p. 184.
There are also certain American Serbophiles who will hear no evil of Mihailovich, and who repudiate as Communist-inspired any suggestion that he ever collaborated with the enemy. Ruth Mitchell, author of The Serbs Choose War, is one of them.
- Kurapovna, Marcia.Shadows on the Mountain: The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries that Doomed WWII Yugoslavia. John Wiley & Sons, 2009, pp. 71–72.
- Mirkovic, Alexander. "Angels and Demons: Yugoslav Resistance in the American Press 1941–1945". World History Connected, University of Illinois website, 2012.
- "How did Robert De Niro fall in love with Serbia".
- "Boycie in Belgrade". YouTube.
- K. Stuart Parkes (January 2009). Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945–2008. Camden House. pp. 174–. ISBN 978-1-57113-401-1.
- Reljic, Dusan; Markovic, Predrag; Sebor, Janko; Mijovic, Vlastimir (16 November 1992). "Limonov & Co". scc.rutgers.edu. Vreme News Digest.
- "LIMONOV Junak našeg doba". Печат - Лист слободне Србије (in Serbian). 22 September 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- "in Serbia at Belgrade told him "I am not Spanish from there [Spain], but Spanish from the East." Andreu, Miguel Rodríguez (31 January 2017). "Serbia fuera del radar estratégico de España". esglobal. https://www.esglobal.org/serbia-del-radar-estrategico-espana Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors, 1801 -1927. CUP Archive. 1966. pp. 529–. GGKEY:5L37WGKCT4N.
- Даница 2009, Вукова задужбина, О породичним приликама краља Владислава, Душан Спасић, 253–263, Београд, 2009
- Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic (1857). "Śpiewacy" (in Polish). Kazimierz Józef Turowski, ed. Sielanki Józefa Bartłomieja i Syzmona Zimorowiczów. The Internet Archive. p.39
- Theodoulou, Christos A. (1971). Greece and the Entente, August 1, 1914-September 25, 1916. p. 151.
Sir Henry Bax - Ironside, who was considered Serbophil..
- Lambros Koutsonikas (1863). Genikē historia tēs Hellēnikēs Epanastaseōs. p. 121. OCLC 679320348.
- Bled, Jean-Paul; Terzić, Slavenko (2001). Europe and the Eastern Question (1878–1923): Political and Organizational Changes. Istorijski institut SANU. pp. 324–325. ISBN 978-86-7743-023-8.
- Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 632.
- Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of. "Ју Хуа за РТС: Волим Србију, долазим чим прође пандемија". www.rts.rs. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Kořan, Michal (2010). Czech Foreign Policy in 2007-2009: Analysis. Ústav mezinárodních vztahů. p. 243. ISBN 978-8-08650-690-6.
Sources
- Sells, David (1997). Serb 'Demons' Strike Back (Royal Institute of International Affairs) Vol. 53, No. 2
- Tomić, Dejan (2019). Srbi i evropski kompozitori: srpska muzika i Srbi u delima evropskih kompozitora, od XIX do početka XXI veka [Serbs and European composers: Serbian music and Serbs in the works of European composers, from the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century]. JMU Radio-televizija Srbije. ISBN 978-8-66195-173-2.
External links
The dictionary definition of serbophilia at Wiktionary
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