birth_date: 1806-01-13 00:00:00
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name: Jovan Sterija Popović
about: Jovan Sterija Popović was a Serbian playwright, poet, lawyer, philosopher and pedagogue who taught at the Belgrade Higher School (The University of Belgrade was established in 1808 from the Belgrade Higher School). He made fun of snobbery, vanity, fad and false patriotism and was a writer whose work exceeded the limits of literary epoch he wrote in. Sterija was recognized by his contemporaries as the one of the leading Serbian intellectuals of his time and he is regarded as one of the best comic playwrights in Serbian literature.
death_date: 1856-03-10 00:00:00