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Bogdan Popović (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 20 December 1863 — Belgrade, Yugoslavia 7 November 1944), member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, was one of the most important literary critics in Serbia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was the brother of Pavle Popović (1868–1939), also a literary critic and professor, and also one of the most influential critics in the period from just before World War I to just before World War II. ==Biography== Bogdan Popović, a Serbian writer, aesthetist and literary theorist, university professor, member of the ''Serbian Royal Academy'', one of the founders of the ''Serbian Literary Herald'' and the creator of the 'Belgrade literary style,' was born in Belgrade on the 20th of December 1863. His work signalled the city's leadership of Serbian cultural aspirations. Popović studied literature and philosophy at both Belgrade's Grande École and at the University of Paris. Returning home in 1893, he became a professor at his ''alma mater'', and twelve years later when the Grande École became accredited as the University of Belgrade he continued teaching French, comparative literature, literary theory and aesthetics until his retirement in 1934. Pavle Popović, his brother, was also a professor of Serbian Literature at the University of Belgrade. Bogdan Popović published his ''Anthology of Modern Serbian Lyric'' (Antologija novije srpske lirike) in 1911, the first attempt to create a literary canon of the most significant poems down the ages. He chose examples that reveal a constant and highly developed poetic expression as the hallmark of Serbian literary achievement. He was the first to distance poetry from folk heritage, proposing an alternative view of sophisticated forms with a broad poetic range and insight into the kind of understanding art offers. Popović founded the ''Serbian Literary Herald'' (Srpski književni glasnik) in 1901, the most prestigious literary magazine in Serbia. Jovan Skerlić who died suddenly on the eve of World War I, was one of Popović best pupils at the Grande École, and later, one of his closest collaborators and colleagues. Following his mentor's footsteps, Skerlić first taught French at the institution where he had been educated before becoming Professor of Serbian Literature when the university was established (1905). Skerlić then went on to join Popović's editorial board of the ''Serbian Literary Herald,'' becoming chief editor for a time. The ''Serbian Literary Herald'', however, ceased publication for the duration of the Great War, but continued after the liberation of Belgrade until the Nazi invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1941. All important Serbian writers published their work in its pages, while the magazine also included reviews, criticism and general articles on film, foreign literature, feminism and women's writing. As a result of Popović's hard work at the university and the literary journal, he was admitted to the Serbian Royal Academy of Arts (now known as the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) on the 3rd of February 1914. Popović was one of the founders of the Serbian PEN Club (a branch of International PEN, and The Society of Modern Languages and Literature. He was also an art critic and a musician. Bogdan Popović was the great, unfulfilled young love of Draga Mašin, née Milićević Lunjevica, the tragic wife of Alexander I of Serbia. The great love was fettered by the sad fact that Bogdan apparently was not deemed a good enough match for Draga's family, which had close ties to the Obrenović court. To compound the tragedy, Draga was killed in 1903 coup d'état which toppled the Obrenović dynasty, in large part because of the royal marriage, considered inappropriate at the time, while Bogdan lived out the remainder of his life as a bachelor. Popović lived long enough to see the liberation of Belgrade in 1944, though the fall of Nazi Germany came as a blessing, the rise of Yugoslav communism was a total shock, especially the liberation of Belgrade by some Buglarians troops who were formerly on the side of the Axis powers. He died in his hometown of Belgrade on the 7th of November 1944, bitterly disappointed at the West for betraying King Peter II and General Dragoljub Mihailović, who saved 500 American and foreign airmen in Operation Halyard. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bogdan Popović」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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