Sava Tekelija, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sava Tekelija

Serbian lawyer

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1761

Place of Birth: Arad, Arad County, Romania

Date of Death: 07-Oct-1842

Profession: writer, lawyer, jurist, merchant

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sava Tekelija (Serbian Cyrillic: ???? ????????; Hungarian: Száva Thököly, 1761–1842) was among the first Serbs to have defended a doctoral thesis in jurisprudence (doctor of law), and in particular in legal theory and philosophy in 1786 at the University of Pest; president of the Matica srpska; philanthropist; noble; and merchant.
Tekelija founded in Budapest the Tekelijanum (Collegium Tökölyanum) in 1838 for Serb students studying in the city.
Tekelija was a big patron of the Matica Srpska and he opened a Matica library in the Tekelijanum.
He is related to Peter Tekeli and Jovan Tekelija (Thököly).