Mihailo Vitković

Mihailo Vitković (Eger, 25 August 1778-Pest, 9 September 1829) was a Serbian and Hungarian poet, translator and lawyer.

He was a contemporary of György Bessenyei, Ferenc Kazinczy, József Kármán, Ferenc Toldy, Károly Kisfaludy, Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, József Bajza and Serbs Jovan Pačić, Jovan Muškatirović and Lukijan Mušicki.

Vitković carried an extensive correspondence with his prominent Hungarian contemporaries as well as his Serb writers and intellectuals.

In 1804 he graduated from the University of Pest with a law degree, passed his bar exam, and started his practice in the same city.

He was greatly attracted by the example of Ferenc Kazinczy, the most prominent figure of contemporary Hungarian literary life and language reform and by the possibility of combining the sentimental novel (adapted to his mother tongue) with a good strong plot.