Branko Radi\u010devi\u0107 was born in Slavonski Brod in 1824 and completed his schooling in Zemun, Sremski Karlovci and Timisoara. In 1843 he enrolled in a law school in Vienna but later gave it up. The Radi\u010devi\u0107 family\u2019s friendship with Vuk Karad\u017ei\u0107 helped Branko gain admissionto the circle of Vuk\u2019s associates and friends. Branko Radi\u010devi\u0107 wrote love and patriotic poems and after becoming ill he started to write elegies. He published his first collection of poems in 1847.<\/p>\n
When the revolutionary fervour swept the Habsburg Monarchy, Radi\u010devi\u0107 left Vienna and lived in various towns in Srijem. He visited the Principality of Serbia on several occasions but the authorities expelled him from Belgrade for fear that his presence could incite unrest among school youths.<\/p>\n
At that time Branko started developing tuberculosis. Upon return to Vienna in 1849 he enrolled in medical school but continued to write literature and published a book of poetry in 1851. He died two years later in Vienna. Posthumously, in 1862, his father published his third book of poetry.<\/p>\n
Along with \u0110uro Dan\u010di\u0107, Branko Radi\u010devi\u0107 was the most devoted follower of Vuk\u2019s Serbian language grammar reform and the introduction of the vernacular language in literature. His best known work is the poem Students\u2019 Goodbye in which he eulogised Mt Fru\u0161ka Gora, schoolboy games and pranks. Branko was the first to bring dominantly lyrical motifs and moods to the Serb national literature. These poems were mostly about joys and beauty of youth, although a lot of his poetry were elegies. Apart from lyrical poetry, Branko also wrote two epic poems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Along with \u0110uro Dan\u010di\u0107, Branko Radi\u010devi\u0107 was the most devoted follower of Vuk\u2019s Serbian language grammar reform and the introduction of the vernacular language in literature. His best known work is the poem Students\u2019 Goodbye in which he eulogised Mt Fru\u0161ka Gora, schoolboy games and pranks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1250,"template":"","pozicija":[],"class_list":["post-1249","znameniti-srbi","type-znameniti-srbi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n