Đorđe Rajković (; 5 May 1824 - 28 July 1886) was a Serbian writer, teacher, and editor of numerous journals and periodicals. He collected and preserved old archives and manuscripts. He collaborated with Vuk Karadžić on epic poems he collected throughout Slavonia among the Serbian population. He was a member of Matica Srpska.
Biography In 1844, at the age of nineteen, he had his first poem Jed i med published, followed by Pesme. All the documents published by Đorđe Rajković, particularly the ones he discovered in the archives of Upper Karlovci eparchy and in the bishop's archives at Plaški, tie in with the broader endeavors of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci and Serbian church councils to legally define the status of the Serbian people in the 18th century Habsburg monarchy. The position according to Serbian and official Austrian interpretation was based on the records found in the archives. Rajković was a friend and collaborator of Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja, and he published her biography in the newspaper Putnik in 1862.
Works Izabrani spisi: biografije književnika, Volume 1 Faksimile od rukopisa znameniti Srba: Skupio, Volume 1 Srpske narodne pesme iz Slavonije
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