Testimonies to Common Life – German Writers of Travel Accounts from the 18th and 19th Centuries about the Greeks in Serbia

Abstract

Searching for testimonies to common life on the territory of South-East Europe, the testimonies freed from excessively emotional and partial views and opinions, in this paper the author has examined, on the basis of the material found in travel accounts, how foreigners saw, understood and interpreted the presence of Greeks in Serbia in the 19th century. The question at issue is primarily travel accounts, published in separate books and journals in the German language. From the chronological point of view the paper discusses notes made on journeys starting from the first decades of the 18th century, until the time when Serbia gained independence and international recognition in the 19th century.