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Love of Serbian culture, language or people
Flag of Serbia
Artistic depiction of a July 1918 event in which a
Serbian flag was flown over the
White House alongside the U.S. one in a show of wartime solidarity; the only non-U.S. flags to have ever been flown over the White House are those of
Serbia and France.
French poster from WWI
Serbophilia (
Serbian : Србофилија ,
romanized : Srbofilija , literally love for Serbia and Serbs ) is the admiration, appreciation or emulation of non-Serbian person who expresses a strong interest, positive predisposition or appreciation for the
Serbian people ,
Serbia ,
Republika Srpska ,
Serbian language ,
culture or
history . Its opposite is
Serbophobia .
History
20th century
World War I
During
World War I , Serbophilia was present in
western countries .
[1]
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Political scientist
Sabrina P. Ramet writes that Serbophilia in France during the 1990s was "traditional", partly as a response to the closeness between Germany and Croatia. Business ties continued during the war and fostered a desire for economic normalization.
[2]
Serbophiles
Jacob Grimm — German philologist,
jurist and
mythologist . Learnt Serbian in order to read
Serbian epic poetry .
[3]
[4]
Archibald Reiss — German-Swiss
publicist ,
chemist , forensic scientist, a professor at the
University of Lausanne .
[5]
Victor Hugo — French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo wrote the speech
Pour la Serbie .[
citation needed ]
Alphonse de Lamartine — French author, poet, and statesman.
[6]
[7]
Helen of Anjou — French noblewoman who became queen consort of the Serbian Kingdom.[
citation needed ]
Mircea I and
Vlad III Dracula
[8]
Several notable composers used motifs from Serbian folk music and composed works inspired by Serbian history or culture, such as:
Johannes Brahms — German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period.[
page needed ]
Franz Liszt — Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era.[
page needed ]
Arthur Rubinstein — Polish-American classical pianist.[
page needed ]
Antonín Dvořák — Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition.[
page needed ]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Russian composer of the Romantic period (See
Serbo-Russian March ).[
page needed ]
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five (See
Fantasy on Serbian Themes ).[
page needed ]
Franz Schubert — Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.[
page needed ]
Hans Huber — Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas.[
page needed ]
Rebecca West (1892–1983) — British travel writer. Was described by American media as having a pro-Serbian stance.
[10]
[11]
Flora Sandes — British Irish volunteer in
World War I .
[11]
Ruth Mitchell — American volunteer in the
Chetniks , World War II. Sister of
Billy Mitchell .
[12]
[13]
[14]
Robert De Niro — American actor
[15]
John Challis — English actor best known for portraying
Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the
BBC Television sitcom
Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003) and its sequel/spin-off
The Green Green Grass (2005–2009)
[16]
Peter Handke — Austrian novelist and playwright,
Nobel Prize winner. Supported Serbia in the
Yugoslav Wars .
[17]
Eduard Limonov — Russian writer and poet.
[18]
[19]
Ángel Pulido — Spanish physician, publicist and politician, who stood out as prominent philosephardite during the Restoration
[20] [
failed verification ]
Essad Pasha Toptani — Ottoman
Albanian politician.
[21]
Anna Dandolo — Venetian noblewoman who became
Queen of Serbia .
[22]
Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic — Polish poet and historian of the Baroque era.
[23] [
failed verification ]
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski — Polish nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author.[
citation needed ]
Pavel Jozef Šafárik — Slovakian philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavistics.[
citation needed ]
Ján Kollár — Slovakian writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.[
citation needed ]
Ľudovít Štúr — Slovakian revolutionary politician and writer.[
citation needed ]
Henry Bax-Ironside — British diplomat.
[24]
Eleftherios Venizelos — Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement.[
citation needed ]
Dimitrios Karatasos — Greek armatolos who participated in the Greek War of Independence, and several other rebellions, seeking to liberate his native Greek Macedonia.
[25]
Herbert Vivian — British journalist and author of Servia: The Poor Man's Paradise and The Servian Tragedy: With Some Impressions of Macedonia .
[26]
Alexander Kolchak — Imperial Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer.
[27]
Yu Hua — Chinese author.
[28]
František Zach — Czech soldier and military theorist.
[29]
Gallery
"A Threatening Situation", a comic published in the American newspaper the
Brooklyn Eagle in July 1914
Departure for Serbia
WWI poster - Kosovo Day , June 28, 1916, published in solidarity with the Serb allies
WWI poster - Save Serbia (1915)
American poster of the Serbian Relief Fund, organised by
Mabel Grouitch , asking for donations to help Serbia on the brink of famine.
See also
References
^ Dobbs, Michael (11 June 2000).
"Blood Bath" . Washington Post .
^ Ramet, Sabrina P. (2018).
Balkan Babel: The Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic (Fourth ed.). Routledge. p. 356.
ISBN
978-0-42997-503-5 .
^ Donald Haase (2008).
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: G-P . Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 531–.
ISBN
978-0-313-33443-6 .
^ Selvelli, Giustina.
"The Cultural Collaboration between Jacob Grimm and Vuk Karadžić. A fruitful Friendship Connecting Western Europe to the Balkans" .
^ Boskovska, Nada (2017).
Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito: Between Repression and Integration . Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 10.
ISBN
978-1-78673-073-2 .
^ Mićunović, Milica (28 November 2012).
"How Serbia stunned Alphonse de Lamartine" . Serbia.com .
^ Maric, Natasa (19 March 2021).
"Pourquoi la Serbie aime tant la France et la langue française" . lefigaro.fr .
^ Ion Pătroiu (1987).
Marele Mircea Voievod . Editura Academiei Repubvlicii Socialiste România. p. 460.
^ Victoria Glendinning (1988).
Rebecca West: A Life . Fawcett Columbine. p. 176.
ISBN
978-0-449-90320-9 .
^
a
b Hammond, Andrew (2010).
"Memoirs of conflict: British women travellers in the Balkans" . Studies in Travel Writing . 14 (1): 70.
doi :
10.1080/13645140903465043 .
S2CID
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^ "War". The Atlantic . Atlantic Monthly Company. 1946. p. 184. There are also certain American Serbophiles who will hear no evil of Mihailovich, and who repudiate as Communist-inspired any suggestion that he ever collaborated with the enemy. Ruth Mitchell, author of The Serbs Choose War, is one of them.
^ Kurapovna, Marcia.Shadows on the Mountain: The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries that Doomed WWII Yugoslavia . John Wiley & Sons, 2009, pp. 71–72.
^ Mirkovic, Alexander.
"Angels and Demons: Yugoslav Resistance in the American Press 1941–1945" . World History Connected , University of Illinois website, 2012.
^
"How did Robert De Niro fall in love with Serbia" .
^
"Boycie in Belgrade" .
YouTube .
^ K. Stuart Parkes (January 2009).
Writers and Politics in Germany, 1945–2008 . Camden House. pp. 174–.
ISBN
978-1-57113-401-1 .
^ Reljic, Dusan; Markovic, Predrag; Sebor, Janko; Mijovic, Vlastimir (16 November 1992).
"Limonov & Co" . scc.rutgers.edu . Vreme News Digest.
^
"LIMONOV Junak našeg doba" . Печат - Лист слободне Србије (in Serbian). 22 September 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2019 .
^ "in
Serbia at
Belgrade told him "I am not Spanish from there [Spain], but Spanish from the East." Andreu, Miguel Rodríguez (31 January 2017). "Serbia fuera del radar estratégico de España". esglobal.
https://www.esglobal.org/serbia-del-radar-estrategico-espana Retrieved 8 June 2018.
^
The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors, 1801 -1927 . CUP Archive. 1966. pp. 529–. GGKEY:5L37WGKCT4N.
^ Даница 2009, Вукова задужбина, О породичним приликама краља Владислава , Душан Спасић, 253–263, Београд, 2009
^
Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic (1857). "Śpiewacy" (in Polish) . Kazimierz Józef Turowski, ed. Sielanki Józefa Bartłomieja i Syzmona Zimorowiczów . The
Internet Archive .
p.39
^ Theodoulou, Christos A. (1971). Greece and the Entente, August 1, 1914-September 25, 1916 . p. 151. Sir Henry Bax - Ironside, who was considered Serbophil..
^ Lambros Koutsonikas (1863). Genikē historia tēs Hellēnikēs Epanastaseōs. p. 121. OCLC 679320348.
^ Bled, Jean-Paul; Terzić, Slavenko (2001).
Europe and the Eastern Question (1878–1923): Political and Organizational Changes . Istorijski institut SANU. pp. 324–325.
ISBN
978-86-7743-023-8 .
^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima . Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 632.
^ Serbia, RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of.
"Ју Хуа за РТС: Волим Србију, долазим чим прође пандемија" . www.rts.rs . Retrieved 28 April 2020 . {{
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^ Kořan, Michal (2010).
Czech Foreign Policy in 2007-2009: Analysis . Ústav mezinárodních vztahů. p. 243.
ISBN
978-8-08650-690-6 .
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