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4 unusual facts about Kiprijan Račanin


Kiprijan Račanin

Kiprijan Račanin or Cyprian of Rača (Кипријан Рачанин; c. 1650–1730) was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school in Szentendre, just like the one he left behind in Serbia at the commencement of the Great Turkish War in 1689.

With Arsenije III Čarnojević he came to settle in Szentendre, where he began to make a name for himself as the dean of a scriptorium, a diligent copyists of manuscripts and books, and writer of the first Serbian primer called Bukvar (1717)

In Zenta he remained for a while, joining the Christian frey against the Turks in the Battle of Zenta.

Jovan Skerlić, Istorije nove srpske knjizevnosti (Belgrade, 1921) pages 26–27


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In 1690 he was a refugee from the Turkish army in Sentandrea, Hungary where he become a disciple of Kiprijan Račanin, who started a school for young monks, similar to the one in the municipality of Rača, near the river Drina, in Serbia.