Milan Savić (author)

Milan Savić (Serbian: Милан Савић German: Emil Szavitz; 1845 in Turska Kanjiža, Austrian Empire[1] – 21 February 1930 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia[2]) was a Serbian polymath: physician writer, historian,[3] philosopher, medical doctor, geographer,[4] literary critic and translator of Goethe's "Faust" in Serbian.

His generation was fighting the Turks for independence, but the cultivators of Serb literature have not been idle either.

Among the institutions of national culture, the stage had received praiseworthy attention, that classical dramatic work of the West is acted in the Serbian idiom on the stages of Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Kragujevac.

Not only Schiller's "Mary Stuart" and "Don Carlos", Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Othello", but Goethe's "Faust" in the Serb theatre of Novi Sad was produced.

The translator, in the metre of the original, was from the pen of this Serbian physician and literary critic.