Gligorije "Gliša" Vozarević (Ležimir, Habsburg monarchy, 1 August 1790 – Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 10 January 1848)[1] was a prominent Serbian publisher, bookbinder and editor.
He was the first in Serbia to begin selling books inexpensive enough to make them accessible to a wider readership, while at the same time developing a standard method to pay authors.
He began by purchasing the most modern press on the market, moving the equipment into a printing and bookbinding house, and opening a bookstore in the center of Belgrade in 1827.
He maintained strong connections with the country's literary elite and played a key role in the development of Serbian literature in the early 19th century.
Vozarević published the best-known works by Dositej, Vuk, Sarajlija, and Miloš Svetić as well as seminal textbooks on science and history.
Due to Turkish incursions, they fled from Bosnia to Slavonia at the end of the 17th century, and opened a ferry service on the Sava River, hence their last name Vozarević.
He met the daughter of the Serbian prince Miloš Obrenović, who in 1824 was married to Todor Hadžic-Bajić, a Zemun merchant, whom he knew from his time working there.
After his death in 1848, his widow Sara successfully continued the business the way that her husband envisioned, as a meeting place for all important binders of the region, and a reading salon that became a literary club for celebrated literati from Serbia and abroad.