Jovan Mišković

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Jovan Mišković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Мишковић; (Negotin, 18 July 1844 - Belgrade, 2 November 1908) was a Serbian general, military theorist, writer and the president of Serbian academy of sciences and arts.

Biography

Mišković was born in Negotin in 1844, and in 1865 he graduated from the Belgrade Artillery School. During Serbian-Turkish War of 1876-1877 he commanded the Čačak brigade and later on the Užice brigade. In the Second Serbo-Turkish War in 1877-1878, he was Chief of the Operational Department of the Supreme Command and the Timok headquarters.

From 1878 to 1880 Miškovič was the new Minister of Defense, known for introducing a new formation and carring out a partial reorganization of the Serbian army. From 1883 to 1885, he was the the leader of the active army and it's headquarters.[1]

He was the commander In the Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885, leading Drina Division of the Drina Division and participating in it in the battle of Slivnici and the fighting around [ [Pirot]].

He was appointed the Chief of the Serbian General Staff from 1888 to 1890.

Jovan Mišković was a regular member of the Serbian Scientific Society of Serbia and the Mathematical Committee and later on a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1908, and it's president in one term. He wrote many articles from the history of wars, tactics and geography and translated several works from French. [2]

He married a daughter of Milivoje Blaznavac and they had two sons.

Works

He traveled throughout Serbia and gave descriptions from many areas. [3]

  • "History of Serbia" (1880),
  • "From the War of the Serbs with the Turks" (1882, 1883)
  • "Serbian Army and Warfare during the Uprising of 1804-1815. year (1895).
  • "Travel to Serbia" (1874)
  • "Hydrography of the Independent Principality of Serbia" (1880)
  • "Through Bosnia, Herzegovina and Boka Kotorska" (1897)
  • Description of the Mining District , (1872)
  • "The war of Serbia with Turkey 1877-1878" (1879)
  • "From the Knjazevac district" (1881) for the purpose of getting to know the terrain of a military-strategic karaktear with a geographic-topographic image is considered the first work of a scientifically-scientific character about this region, whose author is not a foreigner.
  • "Two old churches in Knjazevac district", with descriptions of the church Monastery of the Holy Trinity and the church in Donja Kamenica, published in the Star of the Serbian Archaeological Society
  • "Some old towns and their surroundings in the Kingdom of Serbia", with a special accent on Ravnu and Koželj, published in the Star of the Serbian Archaeological Society

Orders and decorations

References

  1. ^ "Војна академија Београд - Генерал Јован Мишковић". www.va.mod.gov.rs. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  2. ^ "broj 61". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  3. ^ Srpska akademija nauka, Srpska kraljevska akademija (1900). Godišnjak. University of California. Akademija.
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