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Josif Pančić (Јосиф Панчић) (1814-1888) was a world-renown Serbian botanist.
Josip Pančić was born on April 5, 1814 in Bribir near Senj in the Military Border of Austria/Hungary (modern-day Croatia) to a Croatian Catholic family. Finished elementary school in Gospić, went on to the lyceum in Fiume and graduated in 1842 in Budapest in medicine although he had an avid interest in biology in general, botany in particular.
He was acquainted with the Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić in Vienna who convinced him to settle in the then Principality of Serbia, still under nominal Ottoman suzerainty, in 1846. He relinquished his Austro-Hungarian citizenship and changed his given name to Josif as he converted to Orthodoxy. Serbia would become Pančić's home in every sense of the word and he was considered a Serb thereafter.

Josif Pančić (Јосиф Панчић) (1814-1888) was a world-renown Serbian botanist.
Josip Pančić was born on April 5, 1814 in Bribir near Senj in the Military Border of Austria/Hungary (modern-day Croatia) to a Croatian Catholic family. Finished elementary school in Gospić, went on to the lyceum in Fiume and graduated in 1842 in Budapest in medicine although he had an avid interest in biology in general, botany in particular.
He was acquainted with the Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić in Vienna who convinced him to settle in the then Principality of Serbia, still under nominal Ottoman suzerainty, in 1846. He relinquished his Austro-Hungarian citizenship and changed his given name to Josif as he converted to Orthodoxy. Serbia would become Pančić's home in every sense of the word and he was considered a Serb thereafter.