Teodor Pavlović

Teodor Pavlović (24 February 1804 in Dragutinovo, now Novo Miloševo – 12 August 1854, in Sremski Karlovci) was a Serbian writer, publicist, translator and founder of the Gallery of Matica Srpska, and the editor of the oldest literary monthly in Europe Annals of Matica Srpska.

[1] As a vehicle to champion human rights, he established the Serbski Narodni List, a Serbian political newspaper, inaugurated on 1 June 1835 in Buda (now Budapest).

Thanks to the efforts of Pavlović, his friends Sava Tekelija, Jovan Nako, Baron Fedor Nikolić of Rudna, Petar Carnojević, Vladika Platon Atanacković, Prince Mihailo Obrenović, Metropolitan Stefan Stanković, Bishop Evgenije Jovanović, Aleksa Simić, and others, joined the venerable institution and made it what it is today.

He translated from the German of Adolph Freiherr Knigge's "Uber den Umgang mit Menschen" (On Human Relations) into Serbian (Buda, 1831) and two works by Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) entitled "Sympathien" (Sympathies) and "Dialogen des Diogenes von Sinope" also into Serbian, published in Buda, 1829).

In his original writings he gives finished portraits of his contemporaries; and he chronicled in his articles the many political scandals of which Vienna and Budapest were centers.