Atanasije Nikolić

Atanasije Nikolić (Serbian: Атанасије Николић; Bački Brestovac, Bačka, 18 January 1803 — Belgrade, 28 July 1882) was a Serbian teacher and writer, the first mathematics professor and rector at the Lyceum in Kragujevac. He wrote the first undergraduate textbooks in mathematics, algebra, geometry, trigonometry in the Serbian language. He was also employed by the Serbian Ministry of Construction and Public Works as an architect in the then capital city of Kragujevac and later Belgrade.

Today he is remembered as one of the dozen writers who arrived on the scene in the early stages of the nineteenth century along with Jevstatije Mihajlović, Vasilije Čokrljan, playwright Vasilije Jovanović, Miloš Lazarević, Vladislav Jovanović-Čikoš, Josif Vukmirović, Dimitrije Mihailović.