In the liberated capital he met philosopher and educator Obradovic, founder of the Velika Skola (later the University of Belgrade) and Serbia's first minister of public instruction. As the first major Serbian writer to introduce substantial elements of the spoken language of the common people into his transitional mixture of lingering Old Church Slavonic, Slaveno-Serbian, and Russo-Serbian and as Karadzic's teacher, Obradovic was an important precursor to Karadzic. In 1812 Karadzic was sent to eastern Serbia and Bulgaria with special credentials from Karageorge's government to negotiate with the Turks, and in 1813 he served as a deputy judge and local administrator.
Fleeing from the reconquest of Serbia by the sultan's armies in 1813, Karadzic crossed into Austria and reached its capital in November. As soon as he was settled he wrote a pamphlet on the catastrophe in his homeland. The piece attracted the attention of Jernej Kopitar, a learned Slovenian Slavicist and the official censor of Austrian publications. Kopitar recognized in Karadzic a master of the Serbian language and introduced him to some of the most outstanding German, Russian, and Czech scholars of his time.
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