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Love of Serbian culture, language or people
Flag of Serbia Artistic depiction of a July 1918 event in which a Serbian flag was flown over the White House alongside the U.S. one in a show of wartime solidarity; the only non-U.S. flags to have ever been flown over the White House are those of Serbia and France. French poster from WWI Serbophilia (Serbian : Србофилија , romanized : Srbofilija , literally love for Serbia and Serbs ) is the admiration, appreciation or emulation of non-Serbian person who expresses a strong interest, positive predisposition or appreciation for the Serbian people , Serbia , Republika Srpska , Serbian language , culture or history . Its opposite is Serbophobia .
History 20th century World War I During World War I , Serbophilia was present in western countries .[1]
Breakup of Yugoslavia Political scientist Sabrina P. Ramet writes that Serbophilia in France during the 1990s was "traditional", partly as a response to the closeness between Germany and Croatia. Business ties continued during the war and fostered a desire for economic normalization.[2]
Serbophiles Jacob Grimm — German philologist, jurist and mythologist . Learnt Serbian in order to read Serbian epic poetry .[3] [4] Archibald Reiss — German-Swiss publicist , chemist , forensic scientist, a professor at the University of Lausanne .[5] Victor Hugo — French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo wrote the speech Pour la Serbie .[citation needed ] Alphonse de Lamartine — French author, poet, and statesman.[6] [7] Helen of Anjou — French noblewoman who became queen consort of the Serbian Kingdom.[citation needed ] Mircea I and Vlad III Dracula [8] Several notable composers used motifs from Serbian folk music and composed works inspired by Serbian history or culture, such as:Johannes Brahms — German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period.[page needed ] Franz Liszt — Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era.[page needed ] Arthur Rubinstein — Polish-American classical pianist.[page needed ] Antonín Dvořák — Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition.[page needed ] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Russian composer of the Romantic period (See Serbo-Russian March ).[page needed ] Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five (See Fantasy on Serbian Themes ).[page needed ] Franz Schubert — Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.[page needed ] Hans Huber — Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas.[page needed ] Rebecca West (1892–1983) — British travel writer. Was described by American media as having a pro-Serbian stance.[10] [11] Flora Sandes — British Irish volunteer in World War I .[11] Ruth Mitchell — American volunteer in the Chetniks , World War II. Sister of Billy Mitchell .[12] [13] [14] Robert De Niro — American actor[15] John Challis — English actor best known for portraying Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the BBC Television sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003) and its sequel/spin-off The Green Green Grass (2005–2009) [16] Peter Handke — Austrian novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize winner. Supported Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars .[17] Eduard Limonov — Russian writer and poet.[18] [19] Ángel Pulido — Spanish physician, publicist and politician, who stood out as prominent philosephardite during the Restoration [20] [failed verification ] Essad Pasha Toptani — Ottoman Albanian politician.[21] Anna Dandolo — Venetian noblewoman who became Queen of Serbia .[22] Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic — Polish poet and historian of the Baroque era.[23] [failed verification ] Adam Jerzy Czartoryski — Polish nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author.[citation needed ] Pavel Jozef Šafárik — Slovakian philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavistics.[citation needed ] Ján Kollár — Slovakian writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.[citation needed ] Ľudovít Štúr — Slovakian revolutionary politician and writer.[citation needed ] Henry Bax-Ironside — British diplomat.[24] Eleftherios Venizelos — Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement.[citation needed ] Dimitrios Karatasos — Greek armatolos who participated in the Greek War of Independence, and several other rebellions, seeking to liberate his native Greek Macedonia.[25] Herbert Vivian — British journalist and author of Servia: The Poor Man's Paradise and The Servian Tragedy: With Some Impressions of Macedonia .[26] Alexander Kolchak — Imperial Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer.[27] Yu Hua — Chinese author.[28] František Zach — Czech soldier and military theorist.[29] Gallery "A Threatening Situation", a comic published in the American newspaper the
Brooklyn Eagle in July 1914
Departure for Serbia
WWI poster - Kosovo Day , June 28, 1916, published in solidarity with the Serb allies
WWI poster - Save Serbia (1915)
American poster of the Serbian Relief Fund, organised by
Mabel Grouitch , asking for donations to help Serbia on the brink of famine.
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