Mihailo Vujić

Mihailo Vujić

Mihailo Vujić (born October 26, ^jul. / 7. November  1853 ^greg. In Belgrade ; † 1 ^{. Jul} / 14. March  1913 ^{. Greg} in Sušak ) was a Serbian professor of economics and politician of 20 March 1901 to November 7, 1902 was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia .

Career

He completed his studies in philosophy at Velika škola and then studied philosophy and economics in Berlin , Leipzig and Paris. In 1879 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Leipzig. He then joined the People's Radical Party in Serbia , in which he was counted to the moderate wing.

From 1879 to 1887 he taught after Kosta Cukić and Čedomilj Mijatović as the third great professor of economics at Velika škola .

In mid-1887 he first became finance minister in the liberal-radical government of Jovan Ristić and at the end of the same year switched to the radical government of Sava Grujić , which fell in April 1888. He was then Minister of Finance in the governments of Sava Grujić (1889-1891), Nikola Pašić (1891), Lazar Dokić (1893), Sava Grujić (1893-1894) and Đorđe Simić (1896-1897).

Tax reform of 1884

He was remembered because as finance minister he had taken over the tobacco and salt monopoly and the exploitation of the railways, which until then had been in the hands of foreign companies. He put the finances of the state in order and in 1891 compensated the budget for large deficits. He tried to convert all of Serbia's foreign loans to ease the repayment burden, but failed.

When King Aleksandar Obrenović approached the radicals after his marriage to Draga Mašin in 1900, Vujic became envoy in Paris. From February 1901 Vujić was foreign minister in the government of Aleksa Jovanović and shortly thereafter (March 20, 1901) formed his own government, in which he kept the portfolio of the foreign minister. This government was a forward radical, so-called coalition. Fusionist, and at the request of the King, to moderate the radicals with the help of a court of likeable progressives. The reconciliation of Vujić and other moderate radicals to court led to a split in the Radical Party, from which the younger and more militant elements emerged and form the Independent Radical Party. However, according to King Alexander, Vujić was not lenient enough and Vujić's government fell on November 7, 1902.

In the following years Vujić was ambassador to Vienna (1903), Berlin (1906) and Rome (1909).

On February 5, 1901, he was elected a full member of the Serbian Royal Academy .

Publications

• Principles of Economics I-III (1895-1898).
  1. Osnovna prethodna pitanja i istorijski razvitak nauke o narodnoj privredi, 1895.
  2. Ekonomska teorija, 1896.
  3. Ekonomska politika, 1898.

predecessor	Office	successor
Čedomilj Mijatović Dimitrije Stojanovi ́ (1841–1905) Stevan D. Popović	Serbian Finance Minister mid-1887 to 1892 1893 to 1894 1896 to 1897	Nikola Pašić Đorđe Simić Stevan D. Popović
Aleksa Jovanović	Serbian Foreign Minister February 1901 to November 7, 1902	Vasilije Antonić
Aleksa Jovanović	Serbian Prime Minister March 20, 1901 to November 7, 1902	Petar Velimirović
Đorđe Simić	Serbian envoy in Vienna 1903	Đorđe Simić
1881-1888 Milan Petroniević Hardenbergstrasse 12	Serbian envoy in Berlin 1906 to 1907	Miloš Bogičević (1876-1937) broke off diplomatic relations on August 6, 1914
1903-1907: Milovan Milovanović	Serbian envoy in Rome 1909	February 1915 - November 1917: Mihajlo Ristic (1864–1925)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Velika škola , The Great School was the highest educational institution in Serbia from 1863 to 1905. Classes took place in the Captain Misa building. The school became Belgrade University in 1905 when the Faculty of Medicine, Theology and Agriculture opened.
2. ↑ His dissertation with the title About Substance and Causality appeared under the Germanized name Michael Wuitsch .
3. ↑ Dušan Batakovićh, Histoire du peuple serbe, [1]
4. ↑ Biography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , [2]
5. ↑ worldcat.org, [3]
6. ↑ Dimitrije Stojanovi ́ (1841–1905), [4]
7. ↑ Milan Petroniević, [5]