Deretic Jovan -

, the latter was a controversial publicist known for "pseudo-historical" theories regarding the ancient origins of the Serbs. This essay focuses on the scholarly impact of the literary historian, whose work remains a standard textbook for students of Slavic philology worldwide. , such as the Enlightenment or the Serbian Romantic movement Literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Deretic Jovan passed away in Belgrade on October 23, 2006, at the age of 81. His death marked the end of an era—the last great systematizer of Serbian literary history. He left behind over thirty books and four hundred academic papers. deretic jovan

Often distinguished by his middle initial "I.", this Jovan Deretić was an engineer by training who became a prominent and highly controversial public figure. , the latter was a controversial publicist known