Dimitrije P. Tirol (Serbian: ÃÂøüøÃÂÃÂøÃÂõ ÃÂ. âøÃÂþû; Csák, Habsburg monarchy, 30 May 1793 â TimiÃÂoara, Habsburg Monarchy, 30 March 1857) was a writer, linguist, geographer, and painter who lived and worked in the Austrian Empire.
Dimitrije P. Tirol was born in Csák, the son of Panta Tirol and Magdalina Kapamadà ¾ija. His father was born GeorgijeviÃÂ, but on the wall of the house it read "Tyrol", so he took this as his name.
Dimitrije completed his schooling in Csák, Brist, TimiÃÂoara and Kecskemét. He graduated from high school in Mezà Âberény, then enrolled in the Evangelical Lyceum in Bratislava. He returned home in 1813, and two years later his father died. He then moved to TimiÃÂoara with his mother, where he learned to trade at his father's request.
In 1817 he married Christina Christophorov.
He was a great admirer of Vuk Karadà ¾iàat the time of the language reforms. It was because of Vuk that he began collecting Serbian national folk songs in the region of Banat. It was at the time he began writing several scholastic textbooks, including a German Grammar for Serbian youth. In 1818, he wrote .
Vuk and his family visited Tirol in TimiÃÂoara several times. In 1822 Karadà ¾iàtranslated Tirol's grammar into German. Also, Tirol prepared a Serbian grammar that Vuk Karadà ¾iàincluded in the Srpski rjeÃÂnik for Jacob Grimm who published his Wuk's Stephanowitsch kleine Serbische Grammatik in 1824.
In 1827 he published his Slavenska gramatika, sad prvi red na srpskom jeziku (Volume 1). In 1828, Dimitrije P. Tirol founded the Serbian Literary Society of Timià Âoara with Pavel Kengelac and ÃÂorÃÂe ÃÂokrljan. However, three years later, the institution was banned by the authorities. In 1830, he and his wife moved to Belgrade to get away from Habsburg's oppression. He worked a lot there. The Ministry of Education was pleased with Tirol's educational plan and assigned Dimitrije IsailoviÃÂ, Chief Inspector of all schools in Serbia, and Dimitrije Tirol, member of the State Department for History and Geography. He wrote and published PolitiÃÂesko zemljopisanie in Belgrade in 1832.
In 1839, Dimitrije, as Miloà ¡'s teacher (son of Prince Jevrem ObrenoviÃÂ, was sent to Imperial Russia. In Odessa, Tirol met Serbs who had left the Habsburg Empire in the early and mid-18th century. He met several people there and collected historical material. Dimitrije and Miloà ¡ returned to Serbia some two years later.
On 1 May 1848, he became a member of the May Assembly in Sremski Karlovci.
Dimitrije P. Tirol was also an excellent painter, mainly portraits. He is best remembered for painting the likeness of Dositej ObradoviÃÂ.
In 1851 he taught Serbian at the Grammar School in TimiÃÂoara, but in the same year, he also became headmaster of a Serbian school. He died in TimiÃÂoara.