The Greek teacher Georgios Auxentiadis at the town of Zemun (1793-1802)

Abstract

Among the Greek schools that existed in the Northwestern countries of
the Balkans during the 18th and 19th cent., the Greek school at Zemun in Yugoslavia is of special mention. The fame of the school attracted not only
Greeks but Serbian, Bulgarian, and students of other nationalities. The famous Serbian poet Sima Milutinovic-Sarailija had also attended that school.
The author, based on new historical evidence, studies in this article the
life and works of Georgios Auxentiadis, one of the first teachers in this school,
who was not well known up to the present. Also, in this article are discussed
the system of the school, its curriculum, handbooks used by the students, and
the Greek handbooks which were translated from the Greek into Balkan languages, for the use of the students of the various ethnic groups, attending the
school.