Nićifor Dučić

Who was Nićifor Dučić?

Archimandrite Nićifor Dučić, was a member of the golden pleiad of the Serbs from Herzegovina, theologian, historian, philologist and writer who was educated in Belgrade and Paris, monk who refused the title of a bishop, devoted lover of enlightenment and patriot.

In 1848 in Žitomislić Monastery was founded the first school for education of Serbian children and school for education of Orthodox priests, which were established by monks of Žitomislić – Nićifor Dučić and Sirafin Perović. Archimandrite of Herzegovina Nićifor Dučić founded the Orthodox Seminarium in Cetinje in 1863. In 1880 Dučić was appointed as Museum Keeper of Serbian National Museum in Belgrade, and since 1883 as a Director of National Library of Serbia.

Dučić's monographs about monasteries have not lost the cultural-historical value since science must further take some studies into consideration: Christmas in Montenegro; Boka and Zeta; Slav Manuscripts in the National Library in Paris.

Between 1891-99 Dučić himself published his collected works and managed to the ninth book. The study The Old Times of Hilandar and the Monograph of Hilandar was published in 1884 and then it was included into the fourth book of collected works in 1895.