Vid Vuletić Vukasović

Vid Vuletić Vukasović (16 December 1853 - 10 July 1933) was a writer and early ethnographer from Dubrovnik.[1]

Biography

Born in 1853 in Brsečine near Dubrovnik, Vukasović came from a renowned (Roman Catholic) family from Gradac, a small village near Neum in Herzegovina, where his relatives, at the time of the Herzegovina Uprising, fought against the Ottoman Empire. He was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church.

Vuletić Vukasović was a teacher by training, and worked as a teacher in Korčula, then as a professor in the Dubrovnik women's teacher school, and retired as a consultant in the latter institution.[1]

He worked as a historian and collector of folklore and ethnography. Vukasović was an associate of most relevant Dubrovnik newspapers and magazines of his time, amongst them Slovinci, Javor, Dawn, Dubrovnik, Ivy and Kašiković Bosnian villas and Miković's Serbian magazine.

Dionizije Miković praised Vukasović's personal library.[2]

In 1907 he became a correspondent of the Serbian Royal Academy.[3]

He died in Dubrovnik.

Works

References

  1. 1 2 Potkonjak, Sanja (December 2004). "Vid Vuletić Vukasović i spasiteljska etnologija" [Vid Vuletić Vukasović and salvation ethnology] (PDF). Studia ethnologica Croatica (in Croatian) (Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb) 16 (1): 111–139. ISSN 1330-3627. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
  2. ↑ Dionizije Miković (15 Feb 1897). "Vid Vuletić-Vukasović, Serbian writer.". Bosanska Vila (Sarajevo) (1897/03): 33.
  3. ↑ "Vid VUKASOVIĆ VULETIĆ". Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  4. ↑ UDC: 09(=163.42)"18/19", Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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