Protopresbyter Stevan Dimitrijevic and the Serbian Royal Academy

Abstract

Protopresbyter Stevan Dimitrijevic?s academic contribution to the Serbian Royal Academy is primarily evident in his preparation and submission of the archive materials for publishing. That cooperation took place during the first three decades of the twentieth century (1899-1929). The Serbian Royal Academy was a publisher of Dimitrijevic?s paper about the Serbian-Russian Church relationships in the 17th century, as well as the archive materials from Russia about the Serbian Church history, and partially the archives from the Hilandar Monastery until the 18th century. The Hilandar Monastery archive materials from the 18th century, collected and submitted by Dimitrijevic to the Serbian Royal Academy were never published. This paper follows the path of Dimitrijevic?s work submitted to the Serbian Royal Academy, based on the materials from the Archives of the Serbian Academy of Science in Belgrade. Notes taken during the meetings of the Academy were often the only source of some Dimitrijevic?s papers. The purpose of this research is to emphasize the contribution of Dimitrijevic?s papers that are published by the Serbian Royal Academy, and to keep the memory of Dimitrijevic?s attempt to prepare and publish the archive materials from Hilandar Monastery from the 18th century.