page_title: Josif Pančić
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Josif Pančić / Life / Work
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Јосиф Панчић, биолог. Fotografisao Goldfinger. U javnoj upotrebi!
context_page_description: Josif Pančić was a Serbian botanist, Doctor of Medicine, a lecturer at the Great School, the future University of Belgrade, and the first president of the Serbian Royal Academy. He extensively documented the flora of Serbia, and is credited with having classified many species of plants which were unknown to the botanical community at that time. Pančić is credited for discovering the Serbian Spruce. He is regarded as the father of Serbian botany.
context_section_description: He was acquainted with the Serbian linguist Vuk Stefanović Karadžić in Vienna who wrote him a letter of recommendation to the Serbian authorities in order to fulfill his wish to settle in the Principality of Serbia and to study its nature. In May 1846 he arrived in Serbia and worked as a physician in rural Serbia. In 1853, he moved from Kragujevac to Belgrade when he was appointed as one of six professors (Konstantin Branković, Jovan Sterija Popović, Đura Daničić, Matija Ban, and Dimitrije Nešić) at the Belgrade Lyceum of the Principality of Serbia. In 1853, he introduced Mineralogy with geology at the Lyceum.
  He extensively documented the flora of Serbia and is credited with having classified many species of plants that were unknown to the botanical community at that time. Pančić discovered a total of 47 valid species new to science. The crowning achievement of Pančić floristic studies is the Flora of the Principality of Serbia (Flora Kneževine Srbije) published in 1874, while its Supplement appeared ten years later. His explorations marked the golden age of Serbia's botany.
  His most significant discovery was the Serbian Spruce, which he had discovered near Zaovine on the Tara Mountain in 1875. He firmly established Serbian botany among European sciences. He ascertained that Serbia's flora was rich, and worthy of further studies. During the Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78), he was the Chief Physician of the Belgrade Hospital.
  He is said to have "fallen in love" with Kopaonik, which he visited 16 times between 1851 and 1886. Pančić was named the first president of the Serbian Royal Academy formed on April 5, 1887. He requested the opening of the Botanical garden "Jevremovac" in Belgrade.
  Pančić died on February 25, 1888, in Belgrade while at work. A mausoleum of Josif Pančić  was erected on Kopaonik in 1951 by the Academy, the University of Belgrade and the Hikers union, with the inscription:
  Honoring Pančić's request, we moved him here to rest forever. We also announce his message for the Serbian youth: "Only with a thorough understanding and analysis of the nature of our country will they show how much they love and honor their homeland".
caption: Josif Pancic, a monument in the Academy Park on the Student Square in Belgrade
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