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Year of establishment: 1703

Founder: Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

Type of institution: Gimnazija

Teaching language: Serbian

About institution

"What is created by love lives for centures".

The Novi Sad Grammar School “Jovan Jovanović Zmaj” in Novi Sad is one of the oldest cultural and educational institutions in Serbia. In its three-century long presence, it has become a proud guardian of the memory of development of education in our country.
In the early 19th century, while Napoleon’s cannons were redrafting the political map of Europe of that time and Karađorđe’s insurgents fighting for the independence of Serbia, the prominent Novi Sad merchant Sava Vuković, a noble of Beregso, wanted to leave a lasting memory of himself to his people. Blind and visibly ill, Vuković donated 20,000 forints to Saint Sava in 1810 with a gift letter for the establishment of a Serbian grammar school in Novi Sad.
Still, the story of secondary education in Novi Sad did not begin with this generous gesture. As early as 1731, on the same place where the Grammar School building is today, Bishop Visarion Pavlović of Bačka founded the school called “Petrovaradin’s Nativity-Theotokos School of Latin-Slavic”. This school developed on the foundations of the Serbian primary school, founded in the same place in 1703. Bishop Pavlović and the Serbian Orthodox Church Municipality were deeply aware of the fact that only a good education in Latin could ensure a better future for the Serbian people in the Habsburg Empire.

Director: Nemanja Jovišević

Date of coming into force: 11.23.2022