Emanuil Janković

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( the exact date of birth not defined, was born in 1758)

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Precise details of the biography of Emanuila Janković until today are not known. 1758. is taken as the year of his birth and Novi Sad as the place of birth, though he himself later claimed that he was born in Serbia, in Belgrade. Emanuil finished school in Novi Sad. For further science Janković went to Germany at the University of Halle, where he enrolled in medical school. In 1789, he returns home with the intention to open the first Serbian printing company. He died very young, in 1791 in Subotica, on his way from Vienna in Novi Sad.

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Био је успешан у свом научном раду, нарочито из области физике и математике. Године 1788. Халско природњачко друштво, које и данас постоји, бира га за свога члана и он се од тада потписује: натуре испитателнег дружества у Хали члан. Иако је његово почетно опредељење био научни рад, Јанковић се опредељује за друго занимање и 1789. године се враћа кући са намером да отвори прву српску штампарију.

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Serbian writer, interpreter, and a printer. He was born in Novi Sad in 1758, and died 23 September 1791 in Subotica.
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Нови Сад
Serbia
45° 15' 0" N, 19° 51' 0" E
RS
Date of death: 
Friday, September 23, 1791
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Суботица
Serbia
46° 6' 1.0008" N, 19° 39' 56.0016" E
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Year of birth: 
1758
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Србија