{"id":177541,"date":"2025-05-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=177541"},"modified":"2025-05-13T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:39:03","slug":"biser-srpske-pripovetke-i-medicine-na-danasnji-dan-roden-je-laza-lazarevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/biser-srpske-pripovetke-i-medicine-na-danasnji-dan-roden-je-laza-lazarevic\/","title":{"rendered":"PEARL OF SERBIAN LITERATURE AND MEDICINE: Laza Lazarevi\u0107 wrote only 9 short stories, but he remains remembered as one of the greatest!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serbian writer, short story author, and doctor Laza Lazarevi\u0107 was born on May 13, 1851.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He died of tuberculosis, as did his two sons earlier \u2013 Kuzman at the age of one and Vladan at the age of two. Although he wrote only nine short stories, he left a large and indelible mark on Serbian literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lazarevi\u0107 was born in \u0160abac in 1851 into a merchant family \u2013 his father Kuzman and his brother Mihailo owned a trading shop. He was the third child, after his sisters Evica and Milka, and after him, Katica was born. Although he was very frail and sickly as a child, he did not give up later. At the age of only nine, he lost his father, and a year later, his uncle, so his mother Jelka took over the care of him and his sisters, quickly falling into great debt. Nevertheless, she enrolled him in elementary school and lower gymnasium, which he completed in his hometown. In early childhood, he had the opportunity to get to know and love literature, and he read a lot. At the age of 14, he left his mother and his native \u0160abac and enrolled in higher gymnasium in Belgrade. He lived the whole time with his sister Milka, who was married to Milorad \u0160ap\u010danin, a very respected citizen at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the age of 16, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the Great School. He became the secretary of the Great School association “Pobratimstvo”. During his studies and under the influence of Svetozar Markovi\u0107, he began to learn Russian and follow Russian literature. Towards the end of his law studies in 1871, he was chosen as a state scholar and sent to study medicine at the faculty in Berlin, which at that time was one of the most respected in Europe. His scholarship was revoked due to the circumstances that arose as a result of the Paris Commune. Although he did not like law, he used the time and finished the faculty. He became an intern at the Ministry of Education. He had always wanted to become a doctor, and luck smiled on him a year later when he received a scholarship again. He went to study medicine in Berlin, but during the Serbian-Turkish War (1876\u20131877), he returned to Serbia due to military duty. He served as a medical assistant and was awarded a silver medal for diligent service. After the war, he returned to Berlin and completed his medical studies in March 1879.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon his return to Belgrade, he was appointed doctor of the Belgrade district, and in 1881, he became the first doctor of the General State Hospital in Belgrade. He treated prominent and wealthy people, as well as the poor and needy, whom he received without payment, giving them medicine, clothes, and care. It was said that he forbade newspapers from publishing praises written by his patients. In February 1889, he became the personal physician of King Milan. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the medical corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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