Anica Savić-Rebac (Serbian Cyrillic: Аница Савић-Ребац; 4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade. She wrote a number of essays and books about Njegoš, Goethe, Sophocles, Spinoza, Thomas Mann, Greek mystical philosophers, Plato, theory of literature.[1][2] She also translated a number of works from Serbian into English, most notably The Ray of the Microcosm by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš.

Anica Savić-Rebac
Аница Савић-Ребац
Plaque on the house where Savić Rebac lived
Born
Anica Savić

(1892-10-04)4 October 1892
Died7 October 1953(1953-10-07) (aged 61)
Spouse
(m. 1921; died 1953)
Parent

Anica Savić Rebac appears under the name of Milica in travel book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. In this book she is not only a new friend, but also the intellectual guide who eventually reveals to Rebecca West the rituals which would lead the author to the clue metaphor of her vision of the Balkans.[1]

Works edit

  • Geteov Helenizam (1933)
  • Ljubav u filozofiji Spinozinoj (1933)
  • Mistična i tragična misao kod Grka (1934)
  • Štefan George (1934)
  • Platonska i hrišćanska ljubav (1936)
  • Kallistos (1937)
  • Tomas Man i problematika naših dana (1937)
  • Njegoš, Kabala i Filon
  • Njegoš i bogumilstvo
  • Pesnik i njeogova pozicija
  • 'Večeri na moru (1929)
  • Predplatonska erotologija (1932),
  • Antička estetika i nauka o književnosti (1954)
  • Helenski vidici (1966)
Translations
  • The Ray of the Microcosm (1957)
  • Der Strahl des Mikrocosmos

References edit

  1. ^ a b Svetlana Slapšak, Anica Savić Rebac (1894 – 1953), Gegenworte - Zeitschrift für den Disput über Wissen, Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Lemmens Verlag, Berlin 2010.
  2. ^ Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, The Ray of the Microcosm Archived 2013-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, translated by Anica Savić Rebac, Svet Knjige, Beograd 2013.