Avram Branković

Branković Avram (Vranjevo-Novi Bečej, 1799 - Brusnica 1831) Father of Antonije, a food merchant, mother Alka. He attended primary school in his hometown, high school in Sr. Karlovci and Szeged, Hungarian law studies in Pest and Köszeg (1819), and Austrian law studies in Vienna. He spent some time as a jurat in Pest, collaborating notably with J. Milovuk. He translated civic poems from Hungarian and German. He was acquainted with V. Karadžić and in 1828 moved with him to Serbia. Several of his works remained unpublished, of which two are known for certain: "Socrates and His Cup of Poison" and "Constantinople or History of the War with the Turks." The printing of the latter book was prohibited. In Brusnica, he worked as a district clerk in 1831. It was there, while speaking in cheerful company, that a fatal stroke befell him.