Kiprijan Račanin ( sr-Cyrl, Кипријан Рачанин, ''Cyprian of Rača''; c. 1650–1730) was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school (Scriptorium) in

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, just like the one he left behind in Serbia -- School of Rača -- at the commencement of the

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in 1689. He is remembered as an academically-trained Serbian-born writer and enlightener who laid the foundation for the development of modern Serbian literature, according to literary critic

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. It was, incidentally, in the small wooden church, dedicated to the Evangelist Luke, that the Szentenedre

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and printing office came into being; among the monk-scribes Kiprijan Račanin, Gavrilo Trojičanin,

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Hristifor Račanin Hristifor Račanin ( sr-Cyrl, Христофор Рачанин; c. 1595 – 1670) was a Serbian scribe working on ornately decorated manuscripts. He is best known for ''Psaltir s posledovanjem'', written in 1645. He was the abbot of the Rača monas ...

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, and others. Little is known about him. It is known, however, that he took orders at the

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and became a monk-scribe. During the Great Turkish War of 1689-1699 he left central Serbia for Serbian territories up north, bordering Hungary. In Zenta he remained for a while, joining the Christian fray against the Turks in the

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. With

Arsenije III Čarnojević Arsenije ( sr-cyr, Арсеније; ) is a Serbian language, Serbian given name, a variant of the Greek name ''Arsenios''. Diminutives of the name include ''Arsen'', ''Arsa'' and ''Arso (disambiguation), Arso''. It may refer to: *Arsenije Sremac ...

he came to settle in

, where he began to make a name for himself as the dean of a scriptorium, a diligent copyist of manuscripts and books, and writer of one of the early Serbian primers called ''Bukvar'' in 1717, an adaptation of a Primer by Russian writer Fedor Polikarpov-Orlov (1660-1731).

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He compiled the ''Буквар словенских писмена'' ("Primer of Slavic Writings"; 1717), in which he gave the first rules of modern Serbian versification. Among the original works, the most significant is his inspired ''Стихира светом кнезу Лазару'' ("Stihira to the Holy Prince Lazarus"; 1692) * ''Stichologion'' * Liturgical writings

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* * Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia:https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD Serbian writers Year of birth uncertain 1730 deaths Habsburg Serbs 18th-century Serbian writers Serbian Orthodox clergy Serbian monks Refugees of the Great Turkish War {{serbia-writer-stub

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