Pavel Kengelac

[1] He was one of the leaders of the Serbian revival in the 18th century, begun by Dositej Obradović, Zaharije Orfelin, Pavle Julinac, Jovan Rajić,[2] and continued by Milovan Vidaković.

That Protestant school nurtured religious tolerance and offered a broad cameralist education as well the study of Latin, German, Hungarian and Slaveno-Serbian (Russian Slavonic) languages, grammar, rhetorics, mathematics, physics, natural science, geography, history, and philosophy.

It was a time when there were a few vociferous folks on both sides such as Vuk Karadžić advocating a purely popular language and Pavle Kengelac favoring a complete acceptance of Slavonic-Serbian, then in literary use, and those in the middle who sought to "reform", though in a compromising manner.

[10] Kengelac was a composite of Hungarian Serbian merchant, intellectual with an international education (Germany and Russia) in natural science, law, theology, and astronomy.

[13] One of the few intellectuals of his day, the Serbian Archimandrite of the Sveti Đurađ monastery, then part of the Habsburg Empire, Pavle Kengelac, adhered to the ideology of enlightenment and deism as the prevailing philosophy of the 18th century.