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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.<ref name="Obituaries 2022 p4882">{{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> His father Kosta St. Pavlović was a diplomat, who was personal secretary of [[Vojislav Marinković]], the Yugoslav Foreign Minister;<ref name="Tokovi Istorije 0222">{{cite web |last=Bjelajac |first=Mile |date=2022-02-22 |title=Professor Stevan Pavlowitch (1933-1922) |url=https://tokovi.istorije.rs/eng/uploaded/TOKOVI%20ISTORIJE%202%202022%20MILE%20BJELAJAC.pdf |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=Tokovi Istorije}}</ref> 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]], was a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)|Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920]], and had received the [[Legion of Honour]].<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]] |language=hr |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>{{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>
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.<ref name="Obituaries 2022 p4882">{{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> His father Kosta St. Pavlović was a diplomat, who was personal secretary of [[Vojislav Marinković]], the Yugoslav Foreign Minister;<ref name="Tokovi Istorije 0222">{{cite web |last=Bjelajac |first=Mile |date=2022-02-22 |title=Professor Stevan Pavlowitch (1933-1922) |url=https://tokovi.istorije.rs/eng/uploaded/TOKOVI%20ISTORIJE%202%202022%20MILE%20BJELAJAC.pdf |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=Tokovi Istorije}}</ref> 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]], was a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)|Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920]], and had received the [[Legion of Honour]].<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]] |language=hr |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>{{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>


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, the family followed the Yugoslav royal government to the [[United Kingdom]]<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> where his father was appointed chief of the Cabinet of the Prime Ministers [[Dušan Simović]], [[Slobodan Jovanović]]{{efn|Jovanović was cousins with Pavlowitch's father.<ref name="Politika Online 2023 a675">{{cite web | title=Dva avionska leta | website=Politika Online | date=2023-09-08 | url=https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/200871/Dva-avionska-leta | language=sr | access-date=2023-09-08}}</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 name="NOVOSTI 2021 n385">{{cite web | title=Posmrtni ostaci Slobodana Jovanovića stižu u Srbiju | website=NOVOSTI | date=2021-10-11 | url=https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.293.html:356038-Posmrtni-ostaci-Slobodana-Jovanovica-stizu-u-Srbiju | language=sr | access-date=2023-09-08}}</ref>}} and [[Miloš Trifunović (politician)|Miloš Trifunović]] then in 1943 First Secretary of the Yugoslav Embassy.<ref name="Odozgo3" /> After the war Pavlowitch's 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" />
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, the family followed the Yugoslav royal government to the [[United Kingdom]]<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> where his father was appointed chief of the Cabinet of the Prime Ministers [[Dušan Simović]], [[Slobodan Jovanović]]{{efn|Jovanović was cousins with Pavlowitch's father.<ref name="Politika Online 2023 a675">{{cite web | title=Dva avionska leta | website=Politika Online | date=2023-09-08 | url=https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/200871/Dva-avionska-leta | language=sr | access-date=2023-09-08}}</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 name="NOVOSTI 2021 n385">{{cite web | title=Posmrtni ostaci Slobodana Jovanovića stižu u Srbiju | website=NOVOSTI | date=2021-10-11 | url=https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.293.html:356038-Posmrtni-ostaci-Slobodana-Jovanovica-stizu-u-Srbiju | language=sr | access-date=2023-09-08}}</ref>}} and [[Miloš Trifunović (politician)|Miloš Trifunović]] then in 1943 First Secretary of the Yugoslav Embassy.<ref name="Odozgo" /> After the war Pavlowitch's 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" />


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">{{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><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">{{cite web | title=The Writers Directory | website=Gale eBooks | url=https://www.gale.com/ebooks/9781558629868/the-writers-directory | access-date=2023-09-08}}</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" />
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">{{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><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">{{cite web | title=The Writers Directory | website=Gale eBooks | url=https://www.gale.com/ebooks/9781558629868/the-writers-directory | access-date=2023-09-08}}</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" />

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Stevan K. Pavlowitch
Born(1933-09-07)7 September 1933
Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died24 January 2022(2022-01-24) (aged 88)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Professor, writer, journalist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Paris
ThesisAnglo-Russian Rivalry in Serbia, 1837—1839 (1961[1])
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Southampton

Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch (Serbian: Stevan K. Pavlović, Стеван К. Павловић; 7 September 1933 – 24 January 2022) was a Yugoslav and British historian, emeritus professor of Balkan history at the University of Southampton, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[2]

Biography

Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch was born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 7 September 1933,[3][4] into a well-known Serbian family of diplomats from the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.[5] His father Kosta St. Pavlović was a diplomat, who was personal secretary of Vojislav Marinković, the Yugoslav Foreign Minister;[6] his grandfather, also named Stevan K. Pavlović, was an influential lawyer, interpreter and diplomat who had served with the Ministry of Foreign affairs, was a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920, and had received the Legion of Honour.[1] His great-grandfather Kosta Pavlović was the first mayor of Niš and a member of the Liberal Party.[7]

Pavlowitch began his schooling in Bucharest, where his father was stationed as a diplomat.[8] Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, the family followed the Yugoslav royal government to the United Kingdom[9] where his father was appointed chief of the Cabinet of the Prime Ministers Dušan Simović, Slobodan Jovanović[a] and Miloš Trifunović then in 1943 First Secretary of the Yugoslav Embassy.[8] After the war Pavlowitch's 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,[12][9]

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.[8][1] From 1958 to 1965, Pavlowitch worked as a journalist[13] and was stationed in Belgium and Italy.[8] In 1965, he joined the staff of the University of Southampton and in 1997 became the emeritus professor of Balkan history.[13] He was the emeritus professor of Balkan history at the University of Southampton and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[14] With his research on the history of Yugoslavia, rejection of essentialist, Balkanist or 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.[1]

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.[15]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ Jovanović was cousins with Pavlowitch's father.[10] 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.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Dragović-Soso, Jasna (2022). "In Memoriam: Stevan K. Pavlović (1933. — 2022.)". Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics (in Croatian). 5 (1). Serb National Council: 223–226.
  2. ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (2022-03-07). "Professor Stevan Pavlowitch, leading historian of the Balkans who eschewed partisan narratives – obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  3. ^ Slobodan Marković (7 February 2002). "Balkan u novoj prizmi" (in Serbian). Vreme. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  4. ^ Evory, Ann (November 1978). Contemporary Authors. Gale / Cengage Learning. p. 627. ISBN 9780810300385. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (2022-03-07). "Professor Stevan Pavlowitch, leading historian of the Balkans who eschewed partisan narratives – obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  6. ^ Bjelajac, Mile (2022-02-22). "Professor Stevan Pavlowitch (1933-1922)" (PDF). Tokovi Istorije. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  7. ^ "Porodica Pavlović čuvar gradskog duha" (in Serbian). Glas Javnosti. 7 March 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  8. ^ a b c d "Balkan odozgo" (in Serbian). Glas Javnosti. 29 September 2001. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  9. ^ a b Nikolic, Jelena (1941-05-14). "Kosta St. Pavlović, The London Diary 1945–1946Историјски архив Београда". {}. Retrieved 2023-09-06.
  10. ^ "Dva avionska leta". Politika Online (in Serbian). 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  11. ^ "Posmrtni ostaci Slobodana Jovanovića stižu u Srbiju". NOVOSTI (in Serbian). 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  12. ^ "Porodica Pavlović čuvar gradskog duha" (in Serbian). Glas Javnosti. 7 March 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  13. ^ a b "The Writers Directory". Gale eBooks. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  14. ^ "Professor Stevan K. Pavlowitch". University of London. Archived from the original on 13 March 2013.
  15. ^ "Srbija i Velika Britanija: Ko je bio istoričar Stevan K. Pavlović - kosmopolita i džentlmen srpskog porekla". BBC News na srpskom (in Serbian). 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
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