Jovan Skerlić (, ; 20 August 1877 – 15 May 1914) was a

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writer and

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.''Jovan Skerlić u srpskoj književnosti 1877–1977: Zbornik radova''. Posebna izdanja, Institut za knjizevnost i umetnost, Belgrade. He is seen as one of the most influential Serbian literary critics of the early 20th century, after

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, his professor and early

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Skerlić was buried in the

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cemetery in

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.Jovan Skerlić
at the New Graveyard

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, ''Jovan Skerlić et la critique littéraire en Serbie'', Paris, Institut d’Études slaves 1963. {{DEFAULTSORT:Skerlic, Jovan 1877 births 1914 deaths People from the Principality of Serbia Serbian literary critics Literary critics of Serbian Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts University of Belgrade faculty