Stevan Branovački

He finished the second grade of high school in Subotica, and completed his secondary education in Baja and Szeged, where he also studied philosophy, and law in Požun.

After graduating in 1826, he served in the Bačka district in Stari Bečej, then in 1828 at the Royal Table in Budapest, where he passed the bar exam with excellent results.

[3] In 1848, he was elected the district chief of the Solgabir family, which was the first choice in Bačka County for this title from the ranks of people who were not nobles.

[2] He was first elected in 1867, and from 1872 until the end of his life he was the president of the permanent Matica Srpska,[2] the oldest Serbian literary, cultural, and scientific institution.

[2] The tombstone of Stevan Branovoački, at the Uspek Cemetery in Novi Sad, is a protected cultural monument, registered in 1968.