Nikola T. Kašiković
Bosnian writer
Nikola T. Kašiković (Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire, 4 December 1861 – Sarajevo, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, 22 May 1927) was a Bosnian Serb writer, educator, editor of Bosanska Vila and a collector of folk songs.
His editorial policies brought prestige and recognition to his journal in Sarajevo at the time when Bosnia and Herzegovina was under the Turkish and Austrian yoke.
Biography
He taught at Miss Irby Teachers’ College, established in Sarajevo in 1869 by English Protestant humanitarian Adeline Paulina Irby. There he met Stoja Zdjelarević and married her in 1886.
Nikola T. Kašiković went on to become one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s most important cultural figures. Under the auspices of the Serbian Teachers Association in Sarajevo in 1885, Kašiković and three other teachers at Miss Irby Teachers' College—Bozidar Nikašinović (b. 1863), Nikola Šumonja (1865-1927) and Stevo Kaluđerčić (1864-1948) -- founded the first Bosnian Serb literary-cultural journal, Bosanska vila (The Bosnian Muse) which was in circulation from 1885 until 1914. It rapidly became the most important journal in the country, as well as a leading cultural journal among South Slavs outside the region. Bosanska vila published folklore, poetry, short stories, translations and reported on Serbian cultural events from across the Balkans. The journal served as a forum of discussion about not yet attained goals of education and literary and artistic collaborative works by a new generation of writers, namely Aleksa Šantić, Jovan Dučić, Veljko Petrović, Vladimir Ćorović, Svetozar Ćorović, Petar Kočić, Milan Prelog and others.
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