Anica Savić Rebac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anica Savić Rebac

Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1892

Place of Birth: Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

Date of Death: 07-Oct-1953

Profession: writer, historian, classical philologist

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Anica Savic-Rebac (4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade.
She wrote a number of essays and books about Njegoš, Goethe, Sophocles, Spinoza, Thomas Mann, Greek mystical philosophers, Plato, theory of literature.
She also translated a number of works from Serbian into English, most notably The Ray of the Microcosm by Petar II Petrovic-Njegoš. Anica Savic Rebac appears under the name of Milica in travel book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West.
In this book she is not only a new friend, but also the intellectual guide who eventually reveals to Rebecca West the rituals which would lead the author to the clue metaphor of her vision of the Balkans.