LAZA LAZAREVIĆ - SERBIAN REALIST

BIJELJINA, MAY 13 /SRNA/ - Serbian writer and physician Laza Lazarević /1851-1891/, one of the best literary realists, was born today in 1851.

He completed law school in Belgrade and medicine in Berlin.

Lazarević wrote only nine short stories, of which "The German Girl" remained in fragments.

Although he had a patriarchal view of life, his short stories, with a very strong inner drama, have a classic value.

He translated the Russian writers Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Gogol and Alexey Pisemsky and the French writer Eugène Scribe.

As a doctor, he participated in the organisation of health care in Serbia and published 54 papers in professional medical journals, some of which are extremely important.

Other well-known works of Laza Lazarević are: "First Time with My Father at Matins", "The People Will Gild It All", "The Wind", "At the Well", "School Icon", "He Knows Everything", "In Good Time, Outlaws" and "Werther".

The special hospital for psychiatric diseases in Belgrade was named "Dr. Laza Lazarević" in his honour.