Zaharije Orfelin

Zaharije Orfelin

Zaharija Orfelin (Serbian Cyrillic: Захаријa Орфелин; Vukovar, 1726 – Novi Sad, 1785) was an 18th-century Serb polymath who lived and worked in the Austrian Monarchy and Venice. Described as a Renaissance man, he was an educator, administrator, poet, engraver, lexicographer, herbalist, historian, winemaker, translator, editor, publisher, polemicist, polyglot and traveler.