University of Novi Sad

The University of Novi Sad was being created in a special milieu built by generations of foremost intellectuals, as well as institutions of particular national significance, in the towns of Vojvodina. Their duration is measured in centuries. The foundations of higher education in todays Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, and Serbia as a whole, were laid around 1740, with the establishment of the seminarynamed Collegium Vissariono Pawlovicsianum Petrovaradinense in Novi Sad. Among the most prominent forerunners of the University of Novi Sad were Norma school for the education of Serbian teachers, founded in Sombor in 1778, and Preparandija, a teachers college founded in 1812 in Szentendre, whose seat was moved to Sombor in 1816. The most significant role in the development of scientific thought from the 19th century onwards is held by Matica Srpska, the oldest cultural and scientific institution of the Serbian people, founded in 1826 in Pest, whose seat was relocated to Novi Sad in ...