to Europe and editing an army journal in Berlin during the war. The circumstances of his death are somewhat uncertain, but he appears to have been impoverished. The crater Brenner on the Moon was named after him (based on his pen name) by his friend Phillip Fauth. A new observatory was built on Mali Lošinj in 1993, and was named “Leo Brenner“. Controversy In 1889, Gopčević published an ethnographic study titled Old Serbia and Macedonia that was a Serbian nationalist book on Kosovo and Macedonia and contained a pro-Serbian ethnographic map of Macedonia. Gopčević's biographer argues that he did not actually go to Kosovo and the study is not based on authentic experiences. Within scholarship Gopčević's study has been noted for its plagiarisms, manipulations and misrepresentations, especially overstressing the Serbian character of Macedonia. Gopčević's views on Serbian and Albanian populations in Kosovo and also the issue of the Arnautaš theory or Albanians of alleged Serbian (descent) have only been partially examined by some authors. Noted for being an ardent Serbian nationalist, his book Old Serbia and Macedonia is seen as a work that opened the path for unprecedented Serbian territorial claims in the region. Works Montenegro und die Montenegriner, 1877 Oberalbanien und seine Liga, 1881 Bulgarien und Ostrumelien, 1886 Kriegsgeschichtliche Studien, 2 Bände, 1887 (als Leo Brenner): Beobachtungs-Objekte für Amateur-Astronomen, 1902 USA. Aus dem Dollarlande; Sitten, Zustände und Einrichtungen der Vereinigten Staaten, 1913 Das Fürstentum Albanien, seine Vergangenheit, ethnographischen Verhältnisse, politische Lage und Aussichten für die Zukunft, 1914 Geschichte von Montenegro und Albanien, 1914 Aus dem Lande der unbegrenzten Heuchelei. Englische Zustände, 1915 Rußland und Serbien von 1804-1915. Nach Urkunden der Geheimarchive von St. Petersburg und Paris und des Wiener Archivs, 1916 Amerikas Rolle im Weltkriege, 1917 Die Wahrheit über Jesus nach den ausgegrabenen Aufzeichnungen seines Jugendfreundes, 1920 Kulturgeschichtliche Studien, 1920 Österreichs Untergang : die Folge von Franz Josefs Mißregierung, 1920 Serbokroatisches Gesprächsbuch verbunden mit kurzer Sprachlehre und Wörterverzeichnis, 1920 See also Serbs in Italy Triestine Serbs Arthur Evans Marino Gopcevich Spiridione Gopcevich References Sources 1855 births 1928 deaths Serbian astronomers 19th-century astronomers 20th-century astronomers Writers from Trieste Scientists from Trieste