Taught me physics in gimnazija. Kept wearing a blue lab coat, worker-style, and kept his notes in little notebooks in the pockets. We never knew what was in those notes, even though he did bring the last one to our 10th or 15th anniversary. Just didn't want to show it. We did have fun on his classes, though at times he'd insist on using the exact wording of each physical law or definition that he used, even when the wording was way obsolete to the point of misunderstanding. One example that I managed to memorize was the phrase he used to describe a simple proportion. In his words, a/b = c/d was „as the ay has itself with bee, so does cee have itself with dee“. Sounds equally XIX century in serbian too.
Had a reputation of being somewhat a womanizer, and not quite immune to the lure of young sirens from senior grades. Allegedly was caught in flagranti a few times, also with our biology professor (who was a huge woman, well looking huge to us then - probably just below 80kg). I remember once hearing the key in the lock of the biology cabinet and then she came out to tell me to carry something somewhere - and he was already inside.
But then, a dozen years later, I met his wife. She was teaching geography at mašinska. A few times during staff conferences she was sitting next to me. All is forgiven.
7-III-2023 - 15-IV-2026