Jovan Pačić, born in 1771 in a small village of Baja where numerous Serbian authors and artists called home. He went to a German and Hungarian school in Kalocsa. In 1792 or 1793, he joined the hussar regiment of the Austrian army and fought against the French. He took part in several battles of the War of the Fifth Coalition. Pačić was wounded at the great Battle of Wagram in 1812 when a sword cut through his mouth. He retired after a year of recuperation. As a retired cavalry captain, he moved to Novi Sad, and soon after settled in Győr in 1838. He published many verses in the Serbian Journal, Budapest couriers, the Serbian National News and magazines until 1842. Jovan Pačić turned to painting and poetry in his leisure. He primarily painted landscapes and genre art. He was praised by his contemporaries. Pačić died in 1849 in a hotel owned by Jakov Ignjatović's uncle in the ethnic quarter of Budapest known as Tabán. His neighbours at the time were poet Sima Milutinović Sarajlija and novelist Milovan Vidaković.
Literary works
He was a writer and poet whose activity was linked with the latter part of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. He wrote Imenoslovo ili rečnik lićny imena razny naroda Slavenski in collaboration with Ján Kollár, and published by Josif Milovuk in Budapest in 1826; Sočinenija pesnosloska ; and Stojšićev Elikon ili Sredstvoukrašenja duše. He translated the Hungarian songs and proverbs of Péter Beniczky, who lived in the early part of the 17th century. Pačić's songs are about love, wine, combat, leaves, then there are elegies and epigrams. His verses are contemporary, modeled by the epoch in which he lived. His contemporaries were German poetErnst Schulze, Hungarian poet Mihály Csokonai Vitéz and Serbian and Hungarian poet Mihailo Vitković. Some of his poetry closely resembles the enjamblement of the mannerist poetry of the second half of the sixteenth century, and Jovan Pačić, who best represents it, actually happens to be a late admirer of Giovanni della Casa, a poet of very licentious fancy..
Paintings
Most of Pačić's books and others were illustrated by the author himself, like the cover of Serb clothes in Bačka, a watercolor painting, part of his art book entitled Nošnje iz Bačke.
