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КРУГ  ОРФЕЛИН
  • ДОБРОДОШЛИ!
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What is The Orfelin Circle?
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Who Established
The Orfelin Circle?
    • Branimir Bajic
    • Svetlana Doroslovacki
    • Milos Doroslovacki
    • Ljiljana Ivezic
    • Nenad Ivezic
    • Zlata Jovanovic
    • Slobodan Jovanovic
    • Sanja Kovac
    • Vlastimir ‘Beli’ Kovac
    • Olga Popovic
    • Nenad Popovic
    • Jadranka Stojcic
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What Are Our Objectives?
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What is Accomplished?
  • Established the organization
  • Acts of incorporation and bylaws
  • Non-profit organization registration
  • Filing for federal tax exemption
  • Initial assembly meeting
  • Preliminary plans
  • WWW presence
  • Bank account
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How Can The Orfelin Circle Accomplish It’s Goals?
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What Are Our Initial Ideas?
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Visit to the Exhibition
The Byzantium:  Faith and Power
 Metropolitan Museum, New York City
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Literary Evening with
Charles Simic
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Other Ideas
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Why The Orfelin Circle?
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Who Was Zachary Stefanovich Orfelin?
  • Born in 1726 in  Vukovar
  • Died in 1785 in  Isailovo near Novi Sad



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Who Was Orfelin?
  • A teacher
  • A clerk
  • A secretary in church organizations



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Who Was Orfelin?
  •  A calligrapher


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Who Was Orfelin?
  • A cartographer


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Who Was Orfelin?
  • An illustrator


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 Who was Orfelin?
  • A graphic artist
  • A printer
  • An engraver


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Who Was Orfelin?
  • A writer on teaching
  • An author of Slavic and Latin spelling books
  • A poet
  • A writer in Serbian, Russian and German
  • A speaker of Latin, Italian and French





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Who Was Orfelin?
  • A translator
  • A theological polemic
  • A theologian


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Who Was Orfelin?
  • The designer of the original steeples on the church in Sremski Karlovci


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Who Was Orfelin?
  • Publisher of books, magazines, liturgical writings
  • Founder of the first Serbian and Southern Slav magazine “Slaveno-serbski magazin”, 1768.



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Who Was Orfelin?
  • Historian:  He wrote a biography of Peter the Great
  • He published The Experienced Vintner in Vienna in 1783.  It was the first book on wine production in Serbian.



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Where Did Orfelin live?
  • Novi Sad
  • Sremski Karlovci
  • Vienna
  • Buda
  • Temisoara
  • Venice



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Who Were Orfelin’s Contemporaries?
  • Voltaire, Linné, Empress Elizabeth,
  • Louis XIV, Lomonosov, Hume, Diderot,
  • Rousseau, Maria Theresia, Kant,
  • Casanova,Catherine the Great,
  • Piščević, Haydn, George Washington,
  • Galvani, Lavoisier, David, Laplace,
  • Mozart


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Orfelin as metaphor
  • A wide spectrum of cultural interests
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • The interplay of modern and traditional
  • Modern communication
  • Information technology


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Melancholy
  • As science has now fallen,
  • And in its place riches stand,
  • the gold is gone,
  • trampled into mud,
  • the gold of mind,
  • the gold of mind.


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We invite you to join us!
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We invite you to join us!
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Questions