Gavrilo Vitković

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Gavrilo Vitković (January 28, 1829 – July 25, 1902) was a Serbian engineer, historian, professor, and collector of old manuscripts. Born in Buda (then part of the Austrian Empire), he studied at the University of Budapest. After graduation he worked as an engineer in Smederevo and Šabac, and later taught engineering in secondary schools in Kragujevac and Belgrade. He loved collecting documents and manuscripts about 18th- and 19th-century Serbian people, and he gave his collection to the National Library of Serbia. He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society. He died in Negotin at age 73.