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Stevan Vujanovski (Brdani, 27 December 1743 - Novi Sad, 1829) was a Serbian writer, translator, pedagogue, and superintendent of all Eastern Orthodox schools (Serbian and Romanian) in Austrian-occupied Slavonia, Srem and Croatia during the era of the Enlightenment. He wrote a textbook on Serbian grammar called "Rukovodstvo ko paroglagolaniju i pravopisanjiu" (Vienna, 1793) based on an earlier work of Meletius Smotrytsky for Serbian secondary school students after consulting with Dositej Obradović, his mentor.

He was born in the village of Sunje, near Brdani, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the 27th of December 1743. Vujanovski studied in Sopron (Bratislava) and Vienna, where he graduated in 1776 with a degree in law and pedagogy, and taught at the newly-established Ecole Normale (which became the College of Pedagogy of the University of Vienna). The Ecole Normale that trained teachers and supervisors of the reformed schools was founded in Vienna by the Austrian government. Among Serbs, innovations were first implemented in Banat, which was under the direct control of the Viennese authorities and by 1777 were extended to the entire Empire itself. Vujanovski was sent to Osijek in 1778 to oversee the preliminary training of elementary teachers at state-run, special schools called Praparanden-Anstalten. School districts were also formed. Three such districts for Serb schools were headed by prominent pedagogues and writers of the time: in Banat, Teodor Janković-Mirijevski, who later reformed schools in Catherine the Great's Imperial Russia; Avram Mrazović in Backa and Baranja; and Stevan Vujanovski in Slavonia, Srem and Croatia.

Johann Christoph Gottsched's "German Grammar" was translated by Stevan Vujanovski in the Slavoserbian dialect of the time and under a traditionally long titles of the period, "Nemeckaja grammatika iz razlyčnych avtorov, naipačeže Gotšedovych knig sobranna i v pol'zu serbskich detej na slavenoserbskom jazyke izjasnena Stefanom Vujanovskim, slyšatelem pravach vo univerzytete Viennskom", which was a common practice among 18th century authors and publishers. When it first appeared in its original form in 1772, it pleased the Viennese authorities to have a Serb endeavor to foist upon the Serbian nationals in the Austrian Empire the German language. Quite early in his career, 1768, he had begun to receive a stipend to enable him to give his entire attention to his law and philological studies; and the authorities in Vienna conscious of the national importance of his work -- treated him in this respect with more and more generosity as he advanced in years. He was appointed superintendent of Eastern Orthodox schools (Serbian and Romanian) in Slavonia, Srem and Croatia. Vujanovski continued writing to the last, but it may be said that, after the 1793 edition of the Serbian textbook appeared, he added but little to his stores.

More important than either his original prose or his translations were his efforts to familiarize the Austrians with the literature of Serbia, especially northern Serbia which was then under Austrian occupation. He has also left a number of bibliographical compilations.

• Jovan Skerlić, Istorija nove srpske književnosti (Belgrade, 1914, 1921) page 105
• Superintendent of all Eastern Orthodox Schools (Serbian, Romanian and Greek) in Slavonia, Srem and Croatia: 9lJ5bC2CiIh-nyNJrkRykuDmbeE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yxMJUojoLufWyQGE2IAo&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=stevan%20vujanovski&f=false
• Gottsched's "German Grammar" translated into Serbian by Stevan Vujanovski : http://books.google.ca/books/about/Nemeckaja_grammatika_iz_razly%C4%8Dnych_avto.html?id=HxPxPgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y