Monument to Dositej Obradović

A protected monument in Belgrade's Academy Park dedicated to Dositej Obradović, the Serbian Enlightenment's leading figure and the country's first Minister of Education.

The monument to Dositej Obradović stands in the Academy Park in Belgrade, surrounded by the buildings of Belgrade University. Obradović (1739–1811) is regarded as the greatest figure of the Serbian Enlightenment: he traveled across Europe, translated classical and modern texts into Serbian, and championed rational, secular education for ordinary people — decades before the Serbian national renaissance. He later became Serbia's first Minister of Education. The sculpture sits alongside monuments to scientists Josif Pančić and Jovan Cvijić, forming an informal hall of honor for Serbian intellectual history. It is listed as a protected cultural monument of Serbia.