Sremski Karlovci Serbia Karlovac Theological Faculty Seminary - Saint Arsenije Sremac Editorial Photo

In 1794, Metropolitan Stratimirović founded the seminary, as the second oldest in the world after Kiev. A little later, in 1798, he founded the boarding school Blagodjejanije, where poor theologians and high school students lived and ate. During 1805, until the end of 1806, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić taught to read Serbian and German in Karlovac, he finished Slavic grammar and the whole arithmetic and catechism. During this period, Sima Milutinović Sarajlija and Dimitrija Davidović, sons of Aleksa and Jakov Nenadović, attended high school. At the beginning of the 19th century, a small scientific society, better known as the Karlovac Circle, opened in Karlovac, which gathered many intelligent people, and which dealt with issues of language and history. Advancing more and more, the people of Karlovac got the First Pharmacy in 1807, and two years later the Drawing School, which was founded by the Metropolitan, trying to continue the continuity of artistic development and nurturing of Orthodox iconography. By the end of 1811, the construction of the Magistrate`s building was completed. Metropolitan Stratimirović, who marked an epoch in Karlovac with his engagement, died on September 23, 1836 and was buried in the Cathedral.