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'''Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch''' (7 September 1933 – 24 January 2022) was a British historian, a [[professor emeritus]] of [[History of the Balkans|Balkan history]] at the [[University of Southampton]], and a [[fellow]] of the [[Royal Historical Society]].


[[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] by birth, Pavlowitch wrote numerous books about the history of Yugoslavia which established him as a leading scholar in the field, from ''History of Yugoslavia'' published in 1971, ''History of the Balkans, 1804-1945'', to ''Hitler’s New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia'' in 2008.
'''Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch''' ({{lang-sr|Stevan K. Pavlović, Стеван К. Павловић}}; 7 September 1933 – 24 January 2022) was a [[Serbs in the United Kingdom|Serbian British]] historian, emeritus professor of Balkan history at the [[University of Southampton]], and a fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]].


==Biography==
==Life==
Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch was born in [[Belgrade]], [[Kingdom of Serbia|Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] on 7 September 1933,<ref name="Vreme">{{cite web |author=Slobodan Marković |date=7 February 2002 |title=Balkan u novoj prizmi |url=http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=307323 |access-date=2 January 2015 |publisher=Vreme |language=sr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Evory |first1=Ann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NnvGcOx7CkC&q=stevan+pavlowitch+1933 |title=Contemporary Authors |date=November 1978 |publisher=Gale / Cengage Learning |isbn=9780810300385 |pages=627 |access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> into a well-known Serbian family of diplomats from the [[Kingdom of Serbia]] and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father Kosta St. Pavlović was a diplomat, historian and writer who was personal secretary of [[Vojislav Marinković]], the Yugoslav Foreign Minister; his grandfather, also named Stevan K. Pavlović, was an influential lawyer, interpreter and diplomat who had served with the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Serbia)|Ministry of Foreign affairs]] and was a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)|Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920]].<ref name="Dragović-Soso">{{cite journal |last1=Dragović-Soso |first1=Jasna |date=2022 |title=In Memoriam: Stevan K. Pavlović (1933. — 2022.) |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/279362 |journal=[[Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics]] |publisher=[[Serb National Council]] |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=223–226}}</ref> His great-grandfather Kosta Pavlović was the first mayor of [[Niš]] and a member of the [[Liberal Party (Kingdom of Serbia)|Liberal Party]].<ref name="Obituaries 2022 p488">{{cite web |last=Obituaries |first=Telegraph |date=2022-03-07 |title=Professor Stevan Pavlowitch, leading historian of the Balkans who eschewed partisan narratives – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/03/07/professor-stevan-pavlowitch-leading-historian-balkans-eschewed/ |access-date=2023-09-06 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref>
Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch was born in [[Belgrade]] on 7 September 1933.<ref name="Vreme">{{cite web|publisher=Vreme|author=Slobodan Marković|title=Balkan u novoj prizmi|language=sr|date=7 February 2002|access-date=2 January 2015|url=http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=307323}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Evory |first1=Ann |title=Contemporary Authors |date=November 1978 |publisher=Gale / Cengage Learning |pages=627 |isbn=9780810300385 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NnvGcOx7CkC&q=stevan+pavlowitch+1933 |access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> His family members had a long history as diplomats in the service of Serbia's [[Karađorđević dynasty]].


Pavlowitch began his schooling in [[Bucharest]], where his father was stationed as a diplomat.<ref name="Odozgo">{{cite web |date=29 September 2001 |title=Balkan odozgo |url=http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2001/09/29/srpski/K01092806.shtml |access-date=2 January 2015 |publisher=Glas Javnosti |language=sr}}</ref> Following the [[Invasion of Yugoslavia|Axis invasion of Yugoslavia]] in 1941,<ref name="Nikolic 1941 j292">{{cite web |last=Nikolic |first=Jelena |date=1941-05-14 |title=Kosta St. Pavlović, The London Diary 1945–1946Историјски архив Београда |url=https://www.arhiv-beograda.org/en/kosta-pavlovic-dnevnik |access-date=2023-09-06 |website={<nowiki>}</nowiki>}}</ref> the family relocated to the [[United Kingdom]] where his father was appointed chief of the Cabinet of the Prime Ministers then First Secretary of the Yugoslav Embassy in London. After the war his father completed postgraduate magisterial studies at the [[University of Cambridge]] where he became in 1961, permanent member of the Faculty for Contemporary and Medieval Languages and permanent member of the [[Regent House]] of the [[University of Cambridge]],<ref>{{cite web |date=7 March 2005 |title=Porodica Pavlović čuvar gradskog duha |url=http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2005/07/03/srpski/R05070202.shtml |access-date=2 January 2015 |publisher=Glas Javnosti |language=sr}}</ref><ref name="Nikolic 1941 j292" />
His great-grandfather Kosta Pavlović was the first mayor of [[Niš]] following its liberation from the Ottoman Turks in 1878, as well as the head of the Belgrade branch of Serbian [[Prime Minister of Serbia|Prime Minister]] [[Jovan Ristić]]'s Liberal Party. Pavlowitch's grandfather, also named Stevan K. Pavlović, was an influential lawyer, interpreter and diplomat who served as an assistant to Serbia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, governed the 77th District of [[Rotary International]], headed the Serbian–French Friendship Society and was awarded the [[Legion of Honour]] by the French Government. He was also a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference]] in 1919–1920.<ref name="Dragović-Soso">{{cite journal |last1=Dragović-Soso |first1=Jasna |date=2022 |title=In Memoriam: Stevan K. Pavlović (1933. — 2022.) |publisher=[[Serb National Council]] |journal=[[Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics]] |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=223–226 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/279362 }}</ref> Pavlowitch's father Kosta St. Pavlović was a historian and writer who served as a diplomat prior to the [[Axis powers|Axis]] [[invasion of Yugoslavia]] in April 1941.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Glas Javnosti|title=Porodica Pavlović čuvar gradskog duha|language=sr|date=7 March 2005|access-date=2 January 2015|url=http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2005/07/03/srpski/R05070202.shtml}}</ref>


Pavlowitch studied history in [[Paris]] at the [[Sorbonne University]], in [[Lille]] and in [[London]] both at the [[School of Slavonic and East European Studies]] and [[King's College London|King's College]]. From 1958 to 1965, Pavlowitch worked as a journalist and was stationed in [[Belgium]] and [[Italy]]. In 1965, he joined the staff of the [[University of Southampton]] and in 1997 became the emeritus professor of Balkan history, and was a fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]]. With his research on the history of Yugoslavia, rejection of essentialist, [[Imagining the Balkans|Balkanist]] or [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] as well as predetermined or simplistic nationalists interpretations of history, he became one of the most prominent and respected scholars in the field.<ref name="Obituaries 2022 p488" />
Pavlowitch began his schooling in [[Bucharest]], where his father was stationed as a diplomat.<ref name="Odozgo">{{cite web|publisher=Glas Javnosti|title=Balkan odozgo|language=sr|date=29 September 2001|access-date=2 January 2015|url=http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2001/09/29/srpski/K01092806.shtml}}</ref> Just before Yugoslavia's occupation by Germany, Italy and Hungary, Pavlowitch and his parents left the country via [[Nikšić]] airport and sought refuge in [[London]], accompanied by [[Dušan Simović]], [[Momčilo Ninčić]], [[Miloš Trifunović (politician)|Miloš Trifunović]], [[Draško Stojković]], [[Slobodan Jovanović]], and their families. Jovanović was cousins with Pavlowitch's father.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Politika Online|title=Dva avionska leta|language=sr|url=http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Drustvo/Dva-avionska-leta.lt.html|date=11 December 2011|access-date=2 January 2015}}</ref> Jovanović and Pavlowitch's family remained friends in exile. When Jovanović died in December 1958, he was buried on the Pavlowitch family's burial plot in London.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Večernje novosti|title=Posmrtni ostaci Slobodana Jovanovića stižu u Srbiju|language=sr|author=Ivana Mićević|url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.293.html:356038-Posmrtni-ostaci-Slobodana-Jovanovica-stizu-u-Srbiju|date=2 December 2011|access-date=2 January 2015}}</ref>


Pavlowitch was a contributor for the 1992 [[Radio Television of Serbia]] documentary series entitled ''[[Yugoslavia in War 1941–1945]]''. He died on 24 January 2022, at the age of 88.<ref name="Obituaries 2022 p488" />
Exiled, Pavlowitch studied history in [[Paris]] at the [[Sorbonne University]], in [[Lille]] and in [[London]] both at the [[School of Slavonic and East European Studies]] and [[King's College London|King's College]].<ref name="Odozgo"/><ref name="Dragović-Soso"/> From 1958 to 1965, Pavlowitch worked as a journalist<ref name="TWD"/> and was stationed in [[Belgium]] and [[Italy]].<ref name="Odozgo"/> In 1965, he joined the staff of the [[University of Southampton]] and in 1997 became the emeritus professor of Balkan history.<ref name="TWD">"Pavlowitch, Stevan K." The Writers Directory. Ed. Lisa Kumar. 29th ed. Vol. 2. Detroit: St. James Press, 2012.</ref> He was the emeritus professor of Balkan history at the [[University of Southampton]] and a fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Stevan K. Pavlowitch|url=http://www.gold.ac.uk/csb/eab/s-pavlowitch/|publisher=University of London|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313025019/http://www.gold.ac.uk/csb/eab/s-pavlowitch/|archive-date=13 March 2013}}</ref> With his research on the history of Yugoslavia, rejection of essentialist, [[Imagining the Balkans|Balkanist]] or [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] as well as predetermined or simplistic nationalists interpretations of it, over the years he became one of the most prominent international scholars of the region.<ref name="Dragović-Soso"/>


==Works==
Pavlowitch was a contributor for the 1992 [[Radio Television of Serbia]] documentary series entitled ''[[Yugoslavia in War 1941–1945]]''. He died on 24 January 2022, at the age of 88.<ref>{{cite news |title=Srbija i Velika Britanija: Ko je bio istoričar Stevan K. Pavlović - kosmopolita i džentlmen srpskog porekla |url=https://www.bbc.com/serbian/lat/srbija-60401608 |access-date=26 February 2022 |publisher=BBC News |date=25 February 2022}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
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* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Anglo–Russian Rivalry in Serbia, 1837–1839: The Mission of Colonel Hodges|year=1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zoJHDQEACAAJ|location=Paris|publisher=Mouton & Company}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Anglo–Russian Rivalry in Serbia, 1837–1839: The Mission of Colonel Hodges|year=1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zoJHDQEACAAJ|location=Paris|publisher=Mouton & Company}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Yugoslavia|year=1971|location=New York|publisher=Praeger}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Yugoslavia|year=1971|location=New York|publisher=Praeger}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Bijou d'art: Histoires de la vie, de l'œuvre et du milieu de Bojidar Karageorgévitch, artiste parisien et prince balkanique (1862–1908)|year=1978|location=Lausanne|publisher=Éditions L'Âge d'Homme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOgbAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Bijou d'art: Histoires de la vie, de l'œuvre et du milieu de Bojidar Karageorgévitch, artiste parisien et prince balkanique (1862–1908)|year=1978|location=Lausanne|publisher=Éditions L'Âge d'Homme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOgbAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Pavlowitch|first1=Stevan K.|author-link1=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|last2=Biberaj|first2=Elez|author-link2=Elez Biberaj|year=1982|title=The Albanian Problem in Yugoslavia: Two Views|location=London|publisher=Institute for the Study of Conflict}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Pavlowitch |first1=Stevan K. |author-link1=Stevan K. Pavlowitch |last2=Biberaj |first2=Elez |author-link2= |year=1982 |title=The Albanian Problem in Yugoslavia: Two Views |location=London |publisher=Institute for the Study of Conflict}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Unconventional Perceptions of Yugoslavia 1940–1945|year=1985|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780880330817|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uo9pAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Unconventional Perceptions of Yugoslavia 1940–1945|year=1985|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780880330817|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uo9pAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=The Improbable Survivor: Yugoslavia and its Problems 1918–1988|year=1988|location=Columbus|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=9780814204863|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9a4qAAAAYAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=The Improbable Survivor: Yugoslavia and its Problems 1918–1988|year=1988|location=Columbus|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=9780814204863|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9a4qAAAAYAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Tito: Yugoslavia's Great Dictator|year=1992|location=Columbus|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=9780814206003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4ZpAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Tito: Yugoslavia's Great Dictator|year=1992|location=Columbus|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=9780814206003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4ZpAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=A History of the Balkans 1804–1945|year=1999|location=London, New York|publisher=Longman|isbn=9780582045859|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U0UsAQAAIAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=A History of the Balkans 1804–1945|year=1999|location=London, New York|publisher=Longman|isbn=9780582045859|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U0UsAQAAIAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Павловић|first=Стеван К.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Историја Балкана 1804-1945|year=2001|location=Београд|publisher=Clio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oz9pAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book |last=Pavlowitch |first=Stevan K. |author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch |title=History of the Balkans 1804-1945 |year=2001 |location=Belgrade |publisher=Clio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oz9pAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Serbia: The History behind the Name|year=2002|location=London|publisher=Hurst & Company|isbn=9781850654773|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-RuLDaNwbMC}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Serbia: The History behind the Name|year=2002|location=London|publisher=Hurst & Company|isbn=9781850654773|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-RuLDaNwbMC}}
** Republished in US as : {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Serbia: The History of an Idea|year=2002|location=New York|publisher=New York University Press}}
** Republished in US as : {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Serbia: The History of an Idea|year=2002|location=New York|publisher=New York University Press}}
* {{Cite book|last=Павловић|first=Стеван К.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Србија: Историја иза имена|year=2004|location=Београд|publisher=Clio|isbn=9785200000494|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LrRMAQAACAAJ}}
* {{Cite book |last=P |first=Stevan |author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch |title=Serbia: History behind the name |year=2004 |location=Belgrade |publisher=Clio |isbn=9785200000494 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LrRMAQAACAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Павловић|first=Стеван К.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Историја Балкана 1804–1945|year=2004|edition=2|location=Београд|publisher=Clio|isbn=9788671021449|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oAIXAQAAIAAJ}}
* {{Cite book |last=P |first=Stevan |author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch |title=History of the Balkans 1804–1945 |year=2004 |edition=2 |location=Belgrade |publisher=Clio |isbn=9788671021449 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oAIXAQAAIAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia|year=2008|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231700504|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dI9pAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlowitch|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia|year=2008|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231700504|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dI9pAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Павловић|first=Стеван К.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Хитлеров нови антипоредак: Други светски рат у Југославији|year=2009|location=Београд|publisher=Clio|isbn=9788671023610|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9S3-SAAACAAJ}}
* {{Cite book |last=P |first=Stevan |author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch |title=Hitler's new disorder: World War II in Yugoslavia |year=2009 |location=Belgrade |publisher=Clio |isbn=9788671023610 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9S3-SAAACAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|last=Pavlović|first=Stevan K.|author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch|title=Božid'art: Istorije života, dela i okruženja Božidara Karađorđevića, pariskog umetnika i balkanskog kneza (1862–1908)|year=2012|location=Beograd|publisher=Clio|isbn=9788671024204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsG8oAEACAAJ}}
* {{Cite book |last=Pavlović |first=Stevan K. |author-link=Stevan K. Pavlowitch |title=Bozid'art: Histories of the life, work and environment of Bozidar Karađorđević, Parisian artist and Balkan prince (1862–1908) |year=2012 |location=Beograd |publisher=Clio |isbn=9788671024204 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsG8oAEACAAJ}}
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Stevan K. Pavlowitch
Born(1933-09-07)7 September 1933
Died24 January 2022(2022-01-24) (aged 88)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Professor, writer
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Southampton

Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch (7 September 1933 – 24 January 2022) was a British historian, a professor emeritus of Balkan history at the University of Southampton, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Yugoslav by birth, Pavlowitch wrote numerous books about the history of Yugoslavia which established him as a leading scholar in the field, from History of Yugoslavia published in 1971, History of the Balkans, 1804-1945, to Hitler’s New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia in 2008.

Life

Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch was born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 7 September 1933,[1][2] into a well-known Serbian family of diplomats from the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father Kosta St. Pavlović was a diplomat, historian and writer who was personal secretary of Vojislav Marinković, the Yugoslav Foreign Minister; his grandfather, also named Stevan K. Pavlović, was an influential lawyer, interpreter and diplomat who had served with the Ministry of Foreign affairs and was a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920.[3] His great-grandfather Kosta Pavlović was the first mayor of Niš and a member of the Liberal Party.[4]

Pavlowitch began his schooling in Bucharest, where his father was stationed as a diplomat.[5] Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941,[6] the family relocated to the United Kingdom where his father was appointed chief of the Cabinet of the Prime Ministers then First Secretary of the Yugoslav Embassy in London. After the war his father completed postgraduate magisterial studies at the University of Cambridge where he became in 1961, permanent member of the Faculty for Contemporary and Medieval Languages and permanent member of the Regent House of the University of Cambridge,[7][6]

Pavlowitch studied history in Paris at the Sorbonne University, in Lille and in London both at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and King's College. From 1958 to 1965, Pavlowitch worked as a journalist and was stationed in Belgium and Italy. In 1965, he joined the staff of the University of Southampton and in 1997 became the emeritus professor of Balkan history, and was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. With his research on the history of Yugoslavia, rejection of essentialist, Balkanist or Orientalist as well as predetermined or simplistic nationalists interpretations of history, he became one of the most prominent and respected scholars in the field.[4]

Pavlowitch was a contributor for the 1992 Radio Television of Serbia documentary series entitled Yugoslavia in War 1941–1945. He died on 24 January 2022, at the age of 88.[4]

Works

Reference

  1. ^ Slobodan Marković (7 February 2002). "Balkan u novoj prizmi" (in Serbian). Vreme. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ^ Evory, Ann (November 1978). Contemporary Authors. Gale / Cengage Learning. p. 627. ISBN 9780810300385. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  3. ^ Dragović-Soso, Jasna (2022). "In Memoriam: Stevan K. Pavlović (1933. — 2022.)". Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics. 5 (1). Serb National Council: 223–226.
  4. ^ a b c Obituaries, Telegraph (2022-03-07). "Professor Stevan Pavlowitch, leading historian of the Balkans who eschewed partisan narratives – obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  5. ^ "Balkan odozgo" (in Serbian). Glas Javnosti. 29 September 2001. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  6. ^ a b Nikolic, Jelena (1941-05-14). "Kosta St. Pavlović, The London Diary 1945–1946Историјски архив Београда". {}. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  7. ^ "Porodica Pavlović čuvar gradskog duha" (in Serbian). Glas Javnosti. 7 March 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2015.