Prínos Ivana Dorovského k recepcii diela J. A. Komenského v Srbsku

The works of Ivan Dorovsky cast a wide net indeed. The scholarly scope of this multifaceted literary historian, culturologist, ethnographist, folklorist, poet, comparative scholar and translator speaks for itself. His research talent also encompasses the reception of the works of J.A. Comenius in the Balkans. Ivan Dorovsky’s study, J.A. Comenius' Works' Journey into the Balkans, has become an important component in marking the “father of modern pedagogy” jubilee in Serbia. This paper will focus on the translation of the above-mentioned study by Ivan Dorovsky into the Serbian language and its place in marking the 350-year anniversary of J.A. Comenius’ death in Serbia. We will look at the special edition of the Pedagoška Stvarnost (2020) leading scientific journal dedicated to the J.A. Comenius jubilee where a part of Dorovsky's study was published as well as the reception of the jubilee in Serbia in general. A part of the study was translated by Zoroslav Spevak, a retired full professor of the University of Novi Sad, a scholar of Comenius, Slovak by birth, whose work is also mentioned by Dorovsky in the same study. We will approach the translated part of the study in the context of wider cultural interweaving that Dorovsky himself advocated for.