Summary Serbian nation, especially from the time it “opened its orthodox eyes”, had famous people who wrote out its history. One of them, who along with others embed his whole life in prosperity of Serbian people, was Vasa Pelagić. Born in troubled times of 19th century, he upgraded his high school and seminary knowledge abroad. But, the same as all those before and after him, he came back to Serbian nation, and he shared all of his gained knowledge with his people. In Moscow, where he spent two years, he attended lectures from: Russian literature, history, medicine and political economy. All this he implemented in his (not only) written work. Educator, humanist, visionary, writer, and with one word – man who feels the pain of all Serbian wounds, Vasa Pelagić addressed significant attention also to our profession. With his work and care for proper development of young people (and by that not only physical development), he set the basis for its further growth. As equally useful he recommended both natural national gymnastics (work in garden, field), as also artificial gymnastics (different kind of physical exercise), and always asserted that gymnastics must be first among school subjects. His ideas, which we can preceive primarily in theories of biocentrism and ethnocentrism, process a kind of his theoanthropocentric signet. By this signet he highlighted the fact that every human is a personality – one, unique and unrepeatable.

Vaso pelagic, the first theoretician of physical culture in bosnia and herzegovina

Vasa Pelagić – Anatoly on the West

Summary As one of the pioneers of a scientifically based research of the history of Serbian Sokolism in Herzegovina, Professor Petar D. Pavlovic with his work in this area made a significant contribution to the history of Sokol movement and physical culture in this territory, but also in the territory of former Kingdom of SCS, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, United States of America (USA) and the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through his research he laid the foundation for current and future researchers in this field. Not only engaged in the field of History of Physical Culture, and because of the abundance of published scientific papers and other publications also in the field of Theory of Physical Culture, at the center of the authors’ analysis in this paper are some of the first written publications of Full Professor Petar D. Pavlovic in the field of History of Physical Culture that have guided his scientific path in the following years, but also some publications which in recent studies have confirmed and expanded his pioneering steps in the study of history of Serbian Sokolism in Herzegovina, but also in other mentioned areas. In this paper, using the methods of Theoretical analysis and Content analysis, the authors present to readers some of, buy their opinion, most significant publications of Ph.D. Petar D. Pavlovic regarding the mentioned field.

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Vaso pelagic, the first theoretician of physical culture in bosnia and herzegovina

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Vasa Pelagić – Anatoly on the West

Serbian Sokol Movement in Selected Publications of Petar D. Pavlovic

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