The Matica srpska is the oldest Serbian language independent, non-profit, non-governmental and cultural-scientific Serbian national institution. It was founded on June 1, 1826, in Pest by the Serbian habsburg legislator Jovan Hadžić and other prominent members of the Serbian Revolution and National Revival. The Matica was moved to Novi Sad in 1864. It is the oldest matica in the world.
Dejan Medaković was a Serbian art historian, writer and academician. Medaković had served as President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1998 to 2003, as Dean of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy (1971–1973), and was a member of the Matica srpska as well as other scholarly associations.
Milovan Danojlić was a Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic best known for his children's poetry. Danojlić was a full member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.
The Novi Sad Agreement was a document composed by 25 Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian writers, linguists and intellectuals to build unity across the ethnic and linguistic divisions within Yugoslavia, and to create the Serbo-Croatian language standard to be used throughout the country.
Efimeris was a Greek-language newspaper published in Vienna from 1790 to 1797. It is the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today.
Jovan Subotić was a Serbian lawyer, writer, politician and academic.
The 1791 German–Serbian dictionary, referred to as the Avramović Dictionary, is a historical bidirectional translation dictionary published in the Habsburg Empire's capital of Vienna in 1791, though 1790 is given as the year of publication in some of its copies. Containing around 20,000 headwords in each direction, it is the largest Serbian dictionary of the 18th century. Vuk Karadžić possibly used it as a source for his Serbian Dictionary, which first appeared in 1818 as the first book in modern literary Serbian.
Aleksije Vezilić was a Serbian lyric poet who introduced the German version of the Enlightenment to the Serbs.
Gordana Đilas is a Serbian poet, librarian and bibliographer.
Sonja Veselinović is a Serbian writer and assistant professor of comparative literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Novi Sad.
Arsenije Teodorović was a Serbian painter from the Banat region of Vojvodina who is widely considered one of Serbia's foremost portraitists. His best known work is the portrait of Dositej Obradović, the father of modern Serbian literature. Shortly before he died, Teodorović bequeathed more than 1,000 paintings to the founder of the Arts and Crafts School of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci, Stefan Stratimirović.
Milan Kašanin was a Serbian art historian, art critic, curator and writer. He served as the head of three Belgrade based museums, the Museum of Prince Pavle, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gallery of Frescoes.
Jovan Stejić was a Serbian writer, philologist, critic of Vuk Karadžić's reform and medical doctor.
Srba Mitrović was a Serbian poet, translator and librarian.
Aleksandar Sandić was a Serbian historian, cultural worker and politician. He was an elected member of the Serbian Royal Academy in 1897.
Antonije Tona Hadžić was the secretary and president of the Matica Srpska, playwright, and director of the Serbian National Theater and editor-in-chief of the Letopis (Chronicle) of the Matica Srpska.
Jovan Bošković was a Serbian professor, philologist, librarian, and politician.
Svetolik Jakšić was a diplomat, journalist and publicist.
Dimitrije Bratoglić was a near forgotten Serbian academic painter, merchant and sometime spy for Serbian insurgents during the time of the Serbian Revolution. He was born in Zemun, then part of the Austrian Empire, in late December 1764 according to the Julian Calendar which coincided with early January 1765 according to the Gregorian calendar. Bratoglić attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in the 1780s. In 1828 he was commissioned by the Serbian Orthodox Church to paint the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul at Sremski Karlovci. Dimitrije Bratoglić painted wall paintings on the vault, pendants and icons on the iconostasis.
The Markides Pouliou brothers, Georgios and Poulios, were two typographers in the Habsburg monarchy. They were ethnic Aromanians and were the sons of a merchant from Siatista, with them having also been merchants themselves.
