Anica Savić-Rebac (; 4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade.
Biography She graduated from the gymnasium in her hometown of Novi Sad as the only woman in her class. Her further education in Vienna was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. In 1920 she graduated from the University of Belgrade.
She wrote a number of essays and books about Njegoš, Goethe, Sophocles, Spinoza, Thomas Mann, Greek mystical philosophers, Plato, theory of literature.Svetlana Slapšak, Anica Savić Rebac (1894 – 1953), Gegenworte - Zeitschrift für den Disput über Wissen, Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Lemmens Verlag, Berlin 2010.Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, The Ray of the Microcosm , translated by Anica Savić Rebac, Svet Knjige, Beograd 2013. She also translated a number of works from Serbian into English, most notably The Ray of the Microcosm by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš.
Anica Savić Rebac appears under the name of Milica in travel book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. In this book she is not only a new friend, but also the intellectual guide who eventually reveals to Rebecca West the rituals which would lead the author to the clue metaphor of her vision of the Balkans.
Author Ljiljana Vuletić published a book about her life.
Works Geteov Helenizam (1933) Ljubav u filozofiji Spinozinoj (1933) Mistična i tragična misao kod Grka (1934) Štefan George (1934) Platonska i hrišćanska ljubav (1936) Kallistos (1937) Tomas Man i problematika naših dana (1937) Njegoš, Kabala i Filon Njegoš i bogumilstvo Pesnik i njeogova pozicija Večeri na moru (1929) Predplatonska erotologija (1932), Antička estetika i nauka o književnosti (1954) Helenski vidici (1966)
Translations The Ray of the Microcosm (1957) Der Strahl des Mikrocosmos
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