Nikola Šimić also spelled Nikola Shimich (Serbian: Никола Шимић; 1766 in Sombor, Habsburg monarchy – 5 January 1848 in Sombor, Austrian Empire) is credited for being the author of the first modern book on logic in the Serbian language, published in Budapest in two volumes, Volume I in 1808 and Volume II in 1809. His second work, () (The Art of Decent Joking), was published in 1814, also in Budapest.
Nikola Šimić was a polyglot who studied the works of Christian Wolff and Friedrich Christian Baumeister.
Avram Mrazović, a friend of Nikola Šimić, wrote the second book on logic in Serbian in a similar manner, entitled "Logic, or Reasoning," completed in 1826, the year Mrazović died. The book was not published. References