Ilarion Ruvarac was a Serbian historian and Orthodox priest, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
18 Facts About Ilarion Ruvarac
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Ilarion Ruvarac was the founder and one of the foremost proponents of the critical school of Serbian historiography.
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Jovan Ruvarac was born at Sremska Mitrovica on 1 September 1832 to Reverend Vasilije Ruvarac and his wife Julijana, nee Sevic.
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Lazar Ruvanac became an official in the Serbian government, Kosta Ilarion Ruvarac was a writer and literary critic who died while still a student at a university in Pest, and Dimitrije Ilarion Ruvarac was a historian and Orthodox clergyman.
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The Ilarion Ruvarac family settled in Syrmia in Austria-Hungary, today's Serbia, from the region between Bihac and Cazin, nowadays Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Ottoman Empire.
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Ilarion Ruvarac was inspired by the works of Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, Georg Gottfried Gervinus and most notably Leopold von Ranke.
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Ilarion Ruvarac took Ranke's principle of objectivity to history as the basis for his research.
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Ilarion Ruvarac was then appointed clerk of the Serbian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Court at Karlovci.
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Ilarion Ruvarac was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite at the Monastery of Grgeteg in 1874.
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Ilarion Ruvarac died there on the 8th of August 1905.
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Ilarion Ruvarac was the founder and one of the foremost proponents of the critical school of Serbian historiography.
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Ilarion Ruvarac stressed the importance of primary sources and documentation in the discovery of the past, differentiating between primary and secondary sources as well as separating historical evidence and literature.
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Ilarion Ruvarac advocated against the usage of Serbian epic poetry as a historical source, though recognizing its artistic value and rallied against the representation of Serbian history based on epics, myths and legends.
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Ilarion Ruvarac used scientific approaches to refute many deeply rooted and beloved legends, traditions about the treachery of Vuk Brankovic, the eternal freedom of Montenegro, and the death of Tsar Stefan Uros V at the alleged hands of Vukasin Mrnjavcevic.
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Ilarion Ruvarac proved that the so-called massacres as described in Njegos's The Mountain Wreath and in the Montenegrin histories of that period, had never taken place.
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Ilarion Ruvarac knew that Njegos used poetic license to create a drama in which he could get his ideas across.
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Jovan Radonic dedicated his first book to Ilarion Ruvarac honoring him for the introduction of the critical approach to Serbian historiography.
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Ilarion Ruvarac is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs.