Jovan Hadžić

Jovan Hadžić (1799 to 1869) was a Serbian writer, legislator and principal co-founder of the Serbian cultural society Matica Srpska. He wrote under the pseudonyms Miloš Svetić and Miloš Cvetić and was an influential figure in the drafting of the Civil and Criminal Code of Serbia in 1844. Because of his work, Serbia became the fourth modern European country, after France, Austria and the Netherlands, to have a codified legal system. He is also remembered as the most persistent opponent of the orthographic reform of Vuk Karadžić, and as a poet, translator and public figure who served as a legislator in the Principality of Serbia.