Avram Mrazović (Serbian: Аврам Мразовић; 12 March 1756 – 20 February 1826) was a Serbianwriter,translator,pedagogue, aristocrat and Senator of the Free Royal City of Sombor, part of theMilitary Frontier of the Austrian Empire. He was the first to institutionalize a modern teacher training program in 1778[1] which eventually became a teachers' college in Sombor.
Avram Mrazović was born inSombor,Habsburg monarchy, modern-day Serbia. He was the son of Reverend and Mr. Georgije Mrazović, parish priest of theSerbian Orthodox Church of Saint John the Baptist in Sombor.
Mrazović is known in literary annals as a Serbian education reformer who lived and worked in theHabsburg Empire in Serb and Romanian territories of today'sSerbian Vojvodina andRomanian Banat at the same time asTeodor Janković Mirijevski andStefan Vujanovski.[2] He is the first director of the Serb National Primary School Commission after being named to the post by his mentor, Teodor Janković-Mirijevski. He also foundedNorma (Normal school), a teacher training college inSombor in 1778 before another school was opened in 1812 inSzentendre calledRegium Pedagogium Nationis Illiricae (Preparandium in Latin orPreparadija in Serbian) which eventually was relocated back to Sombor in 1816. Mrazović wrote and publishedRukovodstvo k slavenstej grammatice: vo upotreblenik slaveno-serbskih narodnyh ucilisc (a Serbian grammar with correct syntax) in Vienna in 1794 for Serbian schools. He creditedMeletius Smotrytsky's 1619 work as his inspiration.
The first book on logic in the Serbian language was written byNikola Šimić,[3] Avram Mrazović's friend, and was published in Budapest in two volumes, entitled "Logic" (Vol. I, 1808; Vol. II, 1809). Ten years later, Mrazović wrote the second book on logic in Serbian, entitled "Logic, or Reasoning", which he completed in 1826, the year he died. The book was not published.
Mrazović translated the French work ofJeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, and the Latin ofOvid,Cicero,Virgil,Horace,Quintilian, and the Greek ofAristotle as well as the Russian ofMikhail Lomonosov.[4]
