MATIJA BAN Writer, poet and playwright; (b. Petrovo selo, Dubrovnik, 16 December 1818 – d. Belgrade, 1/14 March 1903)

Language teacher in Greek schools (Constantinople and Bursa); tutor of Prince Aleksandar Karđorđević’s daughters; professor of the Lyceum in Belgrade; head of the Public Relation Bureau

Membership of Society Of Serbian Letters (SSL): full member from 12 January 1858

Membership of Serbian Learned Society (SLS): Moral, Linguistic and Literary Sciences Division; full member appointed on 29 July 1864

Membership of Serbian Royal Academy (SRA): Academy of Arts; full member appointed on 5 April 1887; secretary of the Academy of Arts from 27 May 1887 until 22 February 1892

Accession speech: On Ivan Gundulić. Printed in (SKA) Glas 4 (1888) [IV] + 32. – (SKA) Godišnjak 1 (1887) 139 [excerpt]. Delivered on 27 December 1887 ((SKA) Godišnjak  1 (1887) 137–140)

Biographies, bibliographies: (SKA) Godišnjak 1 (1887) 251–259. – D. A. Živaljević: Matija Ban. Kolo 5: 6 (1903) 340–348. – История Славянской Филологiи, 621 (В. Ягичъ). – LPJ (N. Đorđević). – HBL 1, 408–411 (M. Kaminski). – NE 1 (V. Petrović). – EJ 1 (M. Leskovac). – ESI 269–270 (D. Sindik).

Obituary: Delo 8: 26 (1903) 483–484. – Srđ 2 (1903) 281–287. (SKA) Godišnjak 17 (1903) 326–330 (S. Lozanić). – Lj. JAZU 21 (1906) 120–168 (K. Lucerna)

Photograph: SANU–F 189, 189/1