Milovan Vidaković

Milovan Vidaković
Милован Видаковић
Native name
Милован Видаковић
BornMay 1780 (1780-05)
Nemenikuće, Serbia (then Ottoman Empire)
DiedOctober 28, 1841(1841-10-28) (aged 61)
Pest, Hungary
Resting placeBudapest
Occupationnovelist
LanguageSlaveno-Serbian

Milovan Vidaković (Serbian: Милован Видаковић; 1780–1841) was a Serbian novelist. He is referred to as the father of the modern Serbian novel. Today, his novels are mostly forgotten, and he is best remembered as a strong opponent of Vuk Karadžić's language reform and a proponent of the Slavonic-Serbian language as a literary language of Serbs.