Maps ➜ First serbian atlases

First serbian atlases#

Atlases published in the Serbian language in the 19th and early 20th century, with rare exceptions, had a clearly defined goal – to be used as an auxiliary teaching tool in geography and history classes. The large-scale use of atlases in Serbian schools began at the end of the 19th century, even though the first atlas in the Serbian language was printed and published in 1804 by Pavle Solarić in Venice. Certain number of atlases for Serbian schools were published by the French cartographer Constantine Desjardins during his stay in Belgrade and work he did for the Serbian government in the area of cartography during the 1850s. After his work on the development of the atlas, they were not used as auxiliary teaching tool in Serbian primary and secondary schools until 1889, when Vladislav Titelbah and Petar Šreplović published in Belgrade the Atlas of the Kingdom of Serbia with Maps. As per the curriculum for the III grade of elementary schools. Since the geography of the Kingdom of Serbia was studied in the third grade, this atlas filled the gap created by the lack of atlases. One of the goals of collection is to demonstrate the path that Serbian atlases have passed, from a clear recognition of the need for them in schools to their creation. #

Apart from school atlases, being the types of atlases in which the Serbian cartography made its first scientific steps are the first atlases made by Jovan Cvijić that aimed to show larger territories with a clearly defined topic, such as the Geological Atlas of Macedonia and Old Serbia published by Jovan Cvijić in 1903.#