Joakim Vujić

Who was Joakim Vujić?

Joakim Vujić (Serbian: Јоаким Вујић; 1772, Baja, Hungary - 1847) He was born in Baja (Hungary), a small place on the bank of the Danube which had been granted, as early as 1696, special privileges by Emperor Leopold as a "Serbian town". His ancestors had come to this region seeking refuge from the Turks.

Vujic went to school in Baja. First he attended a Slav-Serbian school and then he proceeded to Latin, German and Hungarian schools. He was further educated in Novi Sad, Kalocsa and Bratislava (the Evangelical Licaeum and the Roman-Catholic Academy). He became a teacher and earned his living chiefly as a teacher of foreign languages. He was an ardent supporter of Enlightenment and his model was Dositej Obradovic, whom he knew personally. Vujic was a polyglot and knew Italian, German, French, English, Hungarian and, of course, Greek and Latin. He also learnt some Hebrew.