Milan Savić (author)

Milan Savić (Serbian: Милан Савић German: Emil Szavitz; 1845 in Turska Kanjiža, Austrian Empire[1] – 21 February 1930 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was a Serbian polymath: writer, historian,[2] philosopher, medical doctor, geographer,[3] literary critic and translator of Goethe's "Faust" in Serbian. Savić was a president of Matica srpska (1896–1911). He was the father of Anica Savić Rebac.

Portrait of Savić by Uroš Predić

His generation were fighting the Turks in a legitimate warfare for independence, but the cultivators of Serb literature have not been idle either. He was one among the former and the latter. A graduate from the University of Vienna's prestigious School of Medicine in 1867 and philosophy and medicine in Leipzig in 1876 with exceptional Rigorosum honors. In 1876, he obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Leipzig.[4] He lend his services as a medical doctor in the Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78) and the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. Among the institutions of national culture, the stage had received praiseworthy attention, that classical dramatic work of the West are acted in the Serbian idiom on the stages of Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Kragujevac. Not only Schiller's "Mary Stuart" and "Don Carlos", Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Othello", but Goethe's "Faust" in the Serb theater of Novi Sad was produced. The translator, in the metre of the original, was from the pen of this Serbian physician and literary critic.