Nićifor Dučić
Nićifor Dučić | |
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A portrait of Dučić by Stevan Todorović from 1874 | |
| Born | 21 November 1832 |
| Died | 5 March 1900 (aged 67) |
| Occupation(s) | archimandrite, theologian, historian, writer, military commander, academic |
Archimandrite Nićifor Dučić (Serbian Cyrillic: Нићифор Дучић; 1832–1900), was a Bosnian Serb theologian, historian, philologist, archimandrite, writer and academic.
As Archimandrite of Herzegovina Nićifor Dučić founded the Orthodox Seminarium in Cetinje in 1863. In 1880 Dučić was appointed as the head of the National Museum of Serbia, and since 1883 as a Director of National Library of Serbia.
Dučić's monographs about monasteries (Tvrdoš, Žitomislić, Morača, Ostrog) have not lost the cultural-historical value since science must further take some studies into consideration: Christmas in Montenegro (1867); Boka and Zeta (1875); Slav Manuscripts in the National Library in Paris (1889).