Mojsej Ignjatović

Mojsej Ignjatović (; 1777–1842) was a Serb polymath, writer, educator, translator, dramatist, and high school professor active in the Austrian Empire. He is known for his contributions to children's literature and early Serbian secular education.

Biography Ignjatović was born in Vukovar (at the time in Syrmia County, Kingdom of Slavonia) and was educated in the best Austro-Hungarian schools of that period, first in Osijek and after in Pécs, where he graduated from a Teacher's College. Upon graduating in 1802, Mojsej Ignjatović began his professional career as a teacher and professor in Novi Sad, remaining active until 1839. During this period, he organized school theater performances and translated several plays, including Artello, pridvorni šaljivčina, a theatrical play in three acts by Karl von Eckartshausen in 1813.

Mojsej Ignjatović, in 1817, on a school certificate from that time, is called primae grammatices classis professor (first-class grammar teacher). From this, we conclude that the Serbian national elementary school in Novi Sad was being upgraded to the status of a high school where Ignjatović taught. During the last days of October of the same year, he would organize plays for the local audience, using his students as actors in the performances. He would translate the play from either German or Hungarian and have his students choose the character they wished to play.

In 1826, Ignjatović became the acting superintendent of Eastern Orthodox schools in Srem and in Slavonia.

Works — Serbian translation of a theatrical play in three acts by Karl von Eckartshausen (1752–1803), titled Artello, the Court Prankster, translated by Mojsej Ignjatović in 1813.

(Library of Children's Education: in Stories, Fables, and Theatrical Plays for the Purpose of Inspiring Virtue and Deterring Vice) — a compilation of translated works by Kampe, Saltzmann, Roh, Weiss, Glatz, and Christoph von Schmid. The collection was translated, edited, and presented by Mojsej Ignjatović of the Novi Sad Gymnasium, and published in Buda in 1834 by the Slavonic-Serbian press of the Royal Hungarian University (Славено-србска печатња Краљевскаго всеучилишта венгерскаго).

(Panegyricon to His Sacred Imperial-Royal and Apostolic Majesty Francis I... as a sign of subject gratitude and devotion submitted by Mojsej Ignjatović) — published in Pest in 1835 by the University Press, sponsored by Matica srpska.

(Mojsej Ignjatović's Song to the Blessed Memory of Franz I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary: Through Youth School Songs and Two Speeches — one delivered in Sombor on education, and another in Ruma, Vukovar, and Osijek on Enlightenment and the Duties of Teachers) — printed in Novi Sad by G. Pavel Jankov, C.K. Priv. Typography, in 1839.