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Uroš Stefanović Nestorović (Buda, Habsburg Monarchy 27 December 1765 - Pest, Habsburg Monarchy, 8 August 1825) was a Serbian writer, education reformer and pedagogue.

Biography

He finished high school in Pest, philosophy in Wrocław and law in Vienna. After the establishment of the Illyrian Court Chancellery in Vienna in 1791, Nestorović was appointed as a registrar and an oath-taking notary. When in 1792 the jurisdiction was transferred to the Hungarian Court Chancellery in Vienna and, so too, Nestorović was transferred. As a politician close to and loyal to the Vienna court in 1796, he was appointed a Hungarian court agent, and later as an imperial adviser. During the First Serbian Uprising Nestorović was a court warrior, translating from Serbian to German Karadjordje confidential letters for Francis I and reporting the court about the activities of Metropolitan Stefan Stratimirović and other prominent clerics and worldly persons.^[1]

After the decision was made in 1810 to reform Orthodox schools in Hungary, Nestorović was appointed Supreme Head of Orthodox (Serbian, Vlach and Greek) schools in the Habsburg Monarchy. His task, upon the inspection of these schools in the Provincial and Military Frontier, which were in poor condition, was to organize these schools in a new manner, according to the latest laws and acts of the empire. Nestorović had to find a way to get the money to repair the old, existing facilities and build new schools, to pay the teachers and to establish seminaries and colleges of higher education for training teachers and future priests. He managed to establish several funds that functioned in a satisfactory way while still being able to control these funds. The Serbian Orthodox Church offered substantial help in collecting money, but there was a conflict between Nestorović and the Archbishop Stefan Stratimirović, the head of the church. The gathered means would have been by far greater had there been more understanding and cooperation between Nestorović and Stratimirović who had the backing of the people, owing to his lofty post.^[2] Also, at the same time, Nestorović is entrusted with the secret task of delivering reports to the Supreme Chief of Police in Vienna, Count Hague, about the mood in the clergy and the people, as well as the influence of foreign powers, primarily France and Russia. Metropolitan Stratimirović learned about the intentions of Nestorović, and since then he was extremely distrustful of all his actions.^[3]Following the breakdown of the First Serbian Uprising in 1813, Nestorović proposed to the court to receive Serbian refugees, explaining that Austria would get experienced warriors and wealthy traders. These proposals did not receive the consent of Vienna, and Nestorović's intelligence activity came to an end.^[4]

Nestorović was the initiator and founder of the first Serbian teachers' college in Szentendre, and Archbishop Platon Atanacković was the catechist at the teachers' college and the last Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Budapest.

Poet Eustahija Arsić in a book of poems entitled Sovet' Meternii (A Mother's Advice) is dedicated in fulsome terms to Uroš Nestorović, royal counselor and inspector of schools, praising his work in education and stressing the teaching of girls as well as boys.

References

1. ^https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277095720_Uros_Nestorovic_as_a_confidant_of_the_Vienna_police_at_the_time_of_the_First_Serbian_Uprising
2. ^https://books.google.ca/books?id=0BcfAQAAMAAJ&q=uros+nestorovic&dq=uros+nestorovic&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw2suVxs_fAhUHeawKHQoZCRAQ6AEIRDAF
3. ^https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277095720_Uros_Nestorovic_as_a_confidant_of_the_Vienna_police_at_the_time_of_the_First_Serbian_Uprising
4. ^https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277095720_Uros_Nestorovic_as_a_confidant_of_the_Vienna_police_at_the_time_of_the_First_Serbian_Uprising