Konstantin Branković

Konstantin (Kosta) Branković (25 May 1814 — 22 November 1865) was a Serbian pedagogue and publicist from the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first six-member tutorial staff at the Lyceum of the Principality of Serbia in Kragujevac before Belgrade became the capital city and a new Lyceum was opened there.

Biography He was born in Novi Sad (Újvidék), then part of the Kingdom of Hungary. He finished high school in Novi Sad, philosophy in Szeged, and law in Pest. At the end of 1839, he was appointed professor at the Lyceum, where he was rector four times (1841/42, 1846/47, 1851-1853, and 1859-1863).

He was also among the first founding members of the Society of Serbian Letters and on several occasions its secretary and vice-president. In philosophy, he belonged to the Kantian direction, along with Jovan Stejić, Mihailo Ristić, and Mihailo V. Vujić. In 1848, as a member of the Main Board in Sremski Karlovci, he sent letters to the Serbian newspaper. From 1854 until his death he taught logic, physics, psychology, philosophy and pedagogy at the Lyceum that became Belgrade's Velika škola.

In 1856, he was the editor of Šumadinka, and from 1859, he was the state censor of books and newspapers.

He is best known for his two major works, "Elementary Philosophy (Osnovno mudroslovlje) and "Logic" (Misloslovlje ili logika). In both of his books, he credits the relevant works of Wilhelm Traugott Krug, whom he translated.