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Joca Vujic, a great benefactor of the University of Belgrade, a landowner, a famous bibliophile, was born in Senta in Backa. Elementary and secondary school in Senta. He continued his education in Szeged, in early 1877th went to Bratislava in the so-called. Upper secondary school, where he spent four years. One year he listened to lectures at the University of Vienna, but left the philosophical study that could take over the economy of his father, which is why he enrolled at the High School in agronomic Altenburg in the fall 1882nd He graduated in 1885. year. In Senta promote your property. He is a member, and later president, of the Serbian Orthodox parish in Senta, Member of the Board of Serbian Cultural Society in Novi Sad. Over forty years he collected at home and abroad, books and manuscripts relating to Serbian history, literature and culture. His coin collection, art gallery, library and archives, then, were the most extensive private collection of paintings zemlji.Preko 300 domestic and foreign scholars and numismatic collection, donated to the University Joca Vujic (now located in the National Museum), he donated 50 paintings Serbian motherland, and they were the basis for the opening of the Gallery of Matica Serbian Novi Sad, while its library and archives donated to the 1932nd The University Library. The Belgrade press has hailed his gift as a "gift of Belgrade, the Serbian people a gift, a gift and legacy to posterity science", consolidating it in that way of the great Serbian benefactor that our people have to thank the many cultural and educational goods in the past. Education Minister, thanked him "as one of the largest national and cultural benefactors, which can only be proud of." The king was awarded the Order of St. Sava Vujic second order, and the library of the University Library Committee proposed in 1932. The Joca Vujic to choosing an honorary doctorate at the University of Belgrade. Library Joce Vujic has 4911 inventory numbers, with over 10,000 books and journals, and is a major financial and scientific value. It is one of the richest libraries for the study of national and cultural history of the Serbian, and other Yugoslav peoples. There are the "old Serbian and Glagolitic books, Dubrovnik and Croatian books, newspapers and magazines from the eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. In addition, there are plenty of old works in Latin, German and Hungarian languages ​​from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, which tell about our past, for example. from the sixteenth century 25 books, including rare editions of the Venetian printing Bozidar Vukovic - Festive menaion the 1538th, from the seventeenth century more than 50 local and foreign books, for example. work Orbini Il Regno degli Slavi from 1,601th, Halkokondilova History of the Turks from the 1650th, traveling .. Edward Brown of the 1686th, then about 200 books from the eighteenth century, including the first Serbian Reader from 1739.godine, Žefarovic Stematografija the 1741st, the first Serbian magazine Slavo-Serbian magazine from the 1768th and more than 900 books of various professions, mostly first editions, the first half of the nineteenth century. You are extremely rare, and many brochures that are found in this library. With a library, Joca Vujic and gave his rich archive that contains about 4,000 documents and is divided into four parts: 1 Transcription of the eighteenth century (272 letters) 2 The correspondence of Prince Milos Obrenovic (1427 documents) 3 Correspondence Costa Anastasijevic, a Serbian agent in Bucharest (540) 4 Transcription of known and lesser-known figures of modern times (around 2000), as Christopher Zefarovic, Elijah Garšanina, Ljubomir Nenadovića Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, Joakim Vujic Radoja Domanovića, Janko Veselinovic, Jovan Jovanovic Dragon and others. A special group of military and political reports and open and coded telegrams from the Serbo-Turkish war of 1875-1878. years and the wars since 1912. to 1918. whose number exceeds two hundred. The library carries the PB10.