Uroš Nestorović

Uroš Nestorović is considered one of the most prominent Serbian enlighteners and educators along with Teodor Janković Mirijevski, Stefan Vujanovski, Dimitrie Eustatievici and Avram Mrazović.

In 1810, he was appointed by the authorities in Vienna to the post of supreme school supervisor over all non-Uniate, Eastern Orthodox adherents, including Serbian, Romanian, and Greek schools in the Habsburg monarchy.

Nestorović had to find a way to get the money to repair the old, existing facilities and build new schools, to pay the teachers, and to establish seminaries and colleges of higher education for training teachers and future priests.

[3] The gathered means would have been by far greater had there been more understanding and cooperation between Nestorović and Stratimirović who had the backing of the people, owing to his lofty post.

Poet Eustahija Arsić in a book of poems entitled Sovet' Meterni (A Mother's Advice) is dedicated in fulsome terms to Uroš Nestorović, royal counselor and inspector of schools, praising his work in education and stressing the teaching of girls as well as boys.