Anica Savić Rebac

Anica Savić-Rebac
Аница Савић-Ребац
Plaque on the house where Savić Rebac lived
Born
Anica Savić

(1892-10-04)4 October 1892
Died7 October 1953(1953-10-07) (aged 61)
Spouse
(m. 1921; died 1953)
FatherMilan Savić

Anica Savić-Rebac (Serbian Cyrillic: Аница Савић-Ребац; 4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade. She wrote a number of essays and books about Njegoš, Goethe, Sophocles, Spinoza, Thomas Mann, Greek mystical philosophers, Plato, theory of literature. She also translated a number of works from Serbian into English, most notably The Ray of the Microcosm by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš.

Anica Savić Rebac appears under the name of Milica in travel book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. In this book she is not only a new friend, but also the intellectual guide who eventually reveals to Rebecca West the rituals which would lead the author to the clue metaphor of her vision of the Balkans.