5000 Dinara Vuk Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, the Serbian philologist who standardized the modern Serbian language and reformed its Cyrillic alphabet in the early nineteenth century, was a persistently controversial figure during his lifetime — the Austrian authorities repeatedly banned his orthographic reforms, and the Serbian Orthodox Church opposed him for decades. His rehabilitation into official Yugoslav iconography by 1987 was entirely uncontroversial, which says something about how thoroughly history had vindicated him.