Gavrilo Vitković ( sr-Cyrl, Гаврило Витковић; 1829 – 1902) was an engineer, historian, professor and collector of old manuscripts. He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society.

Biography

After graduating from the University of Budapest, Vitković worked as an engineer in

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. Later, he taught engineering in secondary schools in Kragujevac and Belgrade. And in his spare time he collected original documents and manuscripts mostly about 18th- and 19th- century people from Serbia and granted his collection to the

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References

External links

Biography on the website of SANU
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vitkovic, Gavrilo 1829 births 19th-century Serbian historians Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 1902 deaths