Jaša Tomić (politician)

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Jaša Tomić

Jaša Tomić ( Serbian Cyrillic : Јаша Томић) (born October 23, 1856 in Werschetz , Austrian Empire ; † October 22, 1922 in Novi Sad , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ) was a Serbian politician , publicist, journalist and writer.

Life

Jaša Tomić was born into the family of a Serbian Orthodox Christian . Since 1849 his hometown Vršac belonged to the voivodeship of Serbia and Temeser Banat . The parents were traders. After primary school in Vršac, Tomić was able to attend secondary schools in Timisoara and Kecskemét . In the Herzegovina uprising in 1876, he participated as a volunteer. After its suppression, he went to Vienna and Prague and initially studied medicine , but then switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and Philology . Afterwards Tomić went back to Vojvodina and took on tasks in politics.

Tomić published the magazines Srpsko kolo and Zastava and was the founder of Narodna slobodoumna stranka , the popular freethinker party. In 1889 he stabbed Miša Dimitrijević in Novi Sad , a man who is said to have injured his wife several times in his Branik magazine . For this he was sentenced to seven years in prison. During his imprisonment, Tomić had not given up political goals related to Serbian national liberation. The party he founded was called Radikalna stranka (Radical Party) since 1891, in which he became active again after his release. In 1918 Tomić was elected President of the Serbian National Council in Novi Sad. Under his leadership, the Great People's Assembly decided on November 25, 1918 to split off the areas of Banat , Batschka and Baranja from the Kingdom of Hungary and to unite them with the Kingdom of Serbia . He had to limit his personal activities due to increasing health problems. So he had already started to write down and publish programmatic ideas in good time. After his death he was buried in the Uspensko Groblje cemetery near Novi Sad.

Publications (selection)

  • 1876: The Serbian-Turkish War 1876 [Srpsko-turski rat 1876] (under the pseudonym Milutin Spasić)
  • 1879: a book of poetry published by A. Pajević
  • 1884: a pamphlet about the Serbian National Liberation Struggle and the work of the parties
  • 1886: The Causes of Crime
  • 1886: Workers need politics [Treba li narodu politika]
  • 1889: Five hundred years later: A look at the battle of Kosovo and the fall of the Serbian Kingdom [Posle petstotina godina: razmatranja o Kosovskoj bitci i propasti carstva srpskog]
  • 1896: novel Die Nazarener [Nazareni]
  • 1897: The peasant proletariat of Hungary (study)
  • 1901: The programs of the Radical and the Liberal Party [Program radikalne i program liberalne stranke]
  • 1904: do we need socialists? [Hoćemo li u socijaliste]
  • 1905: Elections and minority rights [Izbor i pravo manjine]
  • 1905: At the turning point [Na prelomu]
  • 1905: Before the decision
  • 1907: I want my right [Tražim svoja prava]
  • 1908: The battle for Kosovo. The great emigration of the Serbs [Boj na Kosovu, Seoba Srba]
  • 1908: The new monastery decree [Nova manastirska uredba]
  • 1909: Women and their rights [Žena i njeno pravo]
  • 1910: Past and present history [Nesavremena i savremena istorija]
  • 1910: On the threshold of a new era in Hungary [Na pragu novog doba u Ugarskoj]
  • 1919: With whom and where are we going? [S kim ćemo i kuda ćemo]
  • 1919: High time to understand [Krajnje vreme da se razumemo]
  • 1919: Divorce - a play in five acts [Razvod braka, pozorišna igra u 5 činova]

  • Monument to Jaša Tomić

  • Funeral of Jaša Tomić

  • Songs by Jaša Tomić

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrej Mitrović:, Snippet view with information about Tomić's involvement in the uprising; 2007 Purdue University Press
  2. ↑ Nicholas J. Miller: Between Nation and State: Serbian Politics in Croatia Before the First World War Snippet view on books.google.de; Short biography. 1998 University of Pittsburgh Pre
  3. ↑ Bojan Aleksov: Religious Dissent between the Modern and the National: Nazarenes in Hungary and Serbia 1850-1914 , snippet view with reference to the novel Nazareni by Tomic; 2006 Harrassowitz publishing house; ISBN 978-3-447-05397-6 .
  4. ^ The peasant proletariat of Hungary: a study on books.google.de
  5. ^ Before the decision, go to books.google.de
personal data
SURNAME Tomić, Jaša
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian politician, publicist, journalist and man of letters
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Vršac
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1922
Place of death Novi Sad