Serbian Studies. 45. North American Society for Serbian Studies. 1986. стр. 180. „Among these historians he points out the significance of Jovan Rajic (1726-1801) and Ilarion Ruvarac (1832-1905). The former indeed "stood on the threshold between the enlightenment and the age of romanticism" and later, as the principal representative and founder of the critical school of Serbian historiography, took "the first relatively objective look at …”
Matthew Anthony Fitzsimons; Alfred George Pundt; Nowell, Charles E. (1967). The development of historiography. Kennikat Press. стр. 348. „Ruvarac (1832-1905) belonged to the rigidly scientific, relentlessly analytic school of historiography which held that the … the school of Ruvarac triumphed in the end, and by the early 1880's Serbian historiography was definitely founded in …”
Philip Lawrence Harriman; Salvadori, Massimo (1953). Contemporary Social Science. Stackpole Company. стр. 255.