Studies
- Prague
Columbija
Cambrige
Berlin
Fascinated with the geniality
of their student, professors in Pančevo decided to send
Mihajlo to Prague, provided his parents agreed. Mother
was always beside him and she agreed with this, but his
father didn't.
|
He thought that Mihajlo should stay at
home, being the only son, and they couldn`t pay for the
jourbey anyway. it seemed as the end of Mihajlo`s education
and scientific improving. But, then happened something
that changed everything completely.
|
Svetozar Miletić |
Being unruly, Pupin wasn`t
interested only in science. He was interesed in social
problems, too. When he came to Pancevo he enjoyed Srebian
youth who protested against the impery.
Eighteen years old Mihajlo participated on demonstration
on May 1st 1872. and there was a chance to be expelled
from the school. But, many important people managed to
avoid this, so he stayed at school till the end of the
following year, and then he was sent to Prague.
Respected citizen of Pancevo and Mihajlo`s friend Prota Vasa Zivkovic, and many of his proffesors thought that it would be good and useful for young Mihajlo to leave, because this was the way to stop his wild ideas and direct him to the science.
After his mothers convincing, father konstantin agreed with this decission
Nakon novog majčinog nagovora kod kuće, otac je konaćno
pristao da se na duži period rastane sa svojim sinom.
|
Ilustration of Pupin`s journey to Prague is exposed
in his museum in Idvor
|
This trip was atrue adventure for young
Mihajlo. After many days of travelling by steamship, on
which his baked goose his mother made him was stolen,
he arrives in Pest, the biggest city he had ever seen!
Then he gets a train for Prague, but since he was very
tired he had fallen asleep |
and missed the station in
Gasendorf (the city of geese). He was very surprised seeng
the train stopping at Vienna the next morning. Here, he
was arrested, then questioned and tortured. Thanks to
one good old couple who gave him the money for the new
trip, Mihajlo is saved from this and he could get to Prague.
|
When he
arrived in this city, he foun the same partition in
his new school, just as it was at the old one. When
they realised where did he came from, German students
started ignoring him, while the Czech ones became his
friends. He met great promoters of panslavism Riger
and Palatski Mihajlo continued with his national activities
and propagand. He didn`t study a lot.
|
Prag - prvi veliki grad Pupinove mladosti
|
| But, then two years later
he got letter from the home in which he found out that
his father died. Now, he didn`t have the money and he
didn`t want to put pressure on his mother, he decided
to cross the ocean and see that great country he was listening
about. |
Columbia
- Cambridge - Berlin
|
|
 |
| |
| |
 |
 |
| The
Mihajlo Pupin's born house is completly reconstructed
and conservated for the anniversary. [further] |
|
 |
|
|
