[8] Skerlić's paternal family originated from Šumadija while maternal was from Vojvodina.

[9] Already in high school he got interested in socialist ideas of Svetozar Marković and joined various groups and publications.

[9] In early 1904 Skerlić spent two months in Munich, then went to Paris again and returned to Belgrade in July 1904 where he received a job offer at the University of Belgrade in 1905 (he lost his job at the Grand School in 1903 for his political engagement).

[9] With secured tenure Skerlić took ambitious and voluminous projects of writing the authoritative history of the contemporary Serbian literature.

[9] His opus magnum, the History of the Contemporary Serbian Literature (Istorija nove srpske književnosti), was completed two months before his early death in 1914.