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The house of the great Serbian writer and doctor Lazar Laza K. Lazarević was damaged in a fire today at around 5:20 pm at Hilandarska 7, in the center of Belgrade. For years, this decrepit beauty has been home to migrants and the homeless, neighbors say. But few people know that Laza Lazarević lived and worked in that house when he was elected to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1888.
The ambulance confirmed to “Blic” that a person was transferred to the Military Medical Academy “because the smoke was inhaled.”
According to the neighbors, the dark side of our memory of the famous writer was revealed in the fire, which was no longer spread by the “illegal neighbors” who immediately opened the windows, according to the neighbors, and by the firefighters who immediately formed in the place and began the extinction action.
Our reporters managed to enter the house of Laza Lazarević, whose premises until 2017 belonged to the Children’s Department of the “Uncle Jova Zmaj” Library. In front of the house at Hilandarska 7, only a white marble commemorative plaque warns that Lazarević once lived there. It was created by the Serbian Medical Association on the centenary of his birth on May 13, 1951.
And inside … not enough to say a total disaster. Scattered clothes, empty bottles, candy wrappers, snacks, food in general, tables and other garbage. All of this is proof that someone was living illegally in a house that was forgotten instead of being proudly shown to tourists.
– The house has been falling apart for years. Since the facility was abandoned, migrants often gather there. Especially at night. In these cold days, probably some of them wanted to shelter and warm up, but inadvertently a fire broke out, one of the neighbors told “Blic”.
The Doctor’s Tower, the building on Birčaninova Street in Belgrade, where Laza Lazarević opened the first psychiatric clinic in the Balkans, is also one step away from (self) collapse.
Who is the man we forget?
Lazar Laza Lazarević was born in Šabac in 1851. He and his three sisters lost their father from the beginning, after which their mother Jelka began to do her best to raise children in difficult circumstances and guide them on the right path. However, it was the cult of the family and the sacrifice of their interests that was a constantly present moment both in the life and in the work of this writer.
Lazarević finished primary and secondary school in Šabac, and at just 16 years old, in 1867, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the Great School of Belgrade. After completing his law studies, his scholarship was confirmed and he went to Berlin. During the Serbian-Turkish war of 1876-1877. he interrupted his studies. He served as a medical assistant and received a silver medal for his zealous service. He completed his medical studies in Berlin in 1879. In 1881, Lazarević became the first doctor at the Belgrade State General Hospital.
Laza Lazarević is considered the creator of the Serbian psychological tale, and the fact that he published only eight short stories during his lifetime shows just how significant his work is. The most famous stories Laza wrote are “The first time with her father in the morning”, “People will gild everything”, “Schwabica” … He was elected a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1888, just at the time he lived. in Hilandarska 7.
There is the Laza K. Lazarević Prize, which is awarded in Šabac every year, and what everyone knows is that the Clinic for Special Psychiatric Diseases is named after him “Dr. Laza Lazarević.
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