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About Gerasim Zelić
- Gerasim Zelic (Serbian: ??????? ?????; 1752–1828) was a Serbian Orthodox Church archimandrite, traveller and writer.
- His chief work is Žitije (Lives), in three volumes.
- They are memoirs of his travels throughout western Europe, Russia and Asia Minor from the latter half of the 18th century to the first decade of the 19th century and the famous personalities (Napoleon, Prince Eugène, Viceroy of Naples, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Semyon Zorich, Catherine the Great, Alexander I of Russia, Stanislaw August Poniatowski, Dositej Obradovic) he encountered.
- He left behind invaluable original notes on the people, religions, manners, customs, and trade of his era. As much as Dositej Obradovic is an emblematic figure of the 18th century Habsburg Serbian Enlightenment so is Gerasim Zelic.
- In many ways the East-West travel itineraries of the two men are similar, covering the Levant, the German lands, France and Russia, though Zelic went first to Russia (rather than to the Levant).
- While both lament their people's plight under the Ottoman rule and promote similar solutions, their perspectives are different, Dositej's cosmopolitanism contrasting with Zelic's clericalism, though their intentions are the same: the emancipation of their people from under the tyrannical yoke of the two empires, the Habsburg and the Ottoman. Zelic was one of the earliest members of the Serbian Learned Society, better known as Matica srpska, founded at Budapest in 1826.
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