ЏЕЈМС ВАЈЛС – 27 ГОДИНА У СЛУЖБИ БИБЛИЈИ И СРБИЈИ
JAMES WILES - 27 YEARS SERVING THE BIBLE AND SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: James Wiles was a lecturer of English language at the Belgrade University, several years prior to the First World War, and also shortly after the armistice in 1919-1920. During the war he served in the British medical missions in Serbia as interpreter and secretary, and as a voluntary chaplain in the field military hospitals and among the Serbian army. In that period of time he gained interest for the Serbian literature and translated to English the Mountain Wrath, Death of Smail Aga, a collection of Serbian lyrics, and other items. From 1920 to 1939 he was the head of the British and Foreign Bible Society Secretariat for the Southeast Europe, with the seat in Belgrade. Wiles was also a participant and collaborator of the Christian Student Movement before the First World War, and YMCA after the war.

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