The National Library of Montenegro "Đurđe Crnojević" received as a gift the original edition - Primer for Montenegrin Schools from 1883.
They announced that the director Dragica Lompar was given this valuable gift during her visit to the library on September 4 by Anđelka Pavić, who studies the life and works of Steve Čuturilo, who created the Bukvar.
The primer was published in Pančevo, published by the Jovanović brothers' Knjižara.
"Anđelka Pavić has been studying the life and works of Steve Čuturilo for almost a decade and writes about Steve Čuturilo's primers, which were in official use in today's Montenegro, Lika, Herzegovina and Serbia for almost fifty years and from which many generations of students became literate. She paid special attention to the already mentioned 'Primer for Montenegrin schools', which was compiled by Stevo Čuturilo in 1879, at the time when he was the chief school supervisor in Montenegro," the announcement states.
They remind that Čuturilo was an important writer and educator from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
"He was born in Dabr, in Lika. He first stayed in Montenegro as a lecturer at the Maritime School in Boka Kotorska, and then Prince Nikola hired him to be the chief school supervisor in Cetinje, where he also worked as the editor of the "Voice of Montenegro". He was also a war reporter from the battle at Vučje Dol," states the National Library, which thanked Anđelka Pavić.
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