Milovan Milovanović

Milovan Milovanović

Milovan Dj. Milovanović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Милован Миловановић ; born February 17, 1863 in Belgrade , Principality of Serbia ; † June 18, 1912 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia ) was a Serbian politician who was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1911 until his death in 1912 .

Life

After attending school in Belgrade in 1881, Milovanović began studying law at the University of Paris with a scholarship from the Minister of Education, Stojan Novaković , which he graduated in 1884. In 1888 he obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Paris with a dissertation entitled Les Traités de garantie au XIXe siècle . After his return in 1888 he took over a professorship for international law at the University of Belgrade , but in 1890 he moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Secretary General. There he was largely responsible for the negotiations for a trade agreement with Austria-Hungary . In 1891 he returned to teaching at the University of Belgrade.

In the mid-1890s he began his political engagement in the Serbian Progressive Party, but later switched to the Radical People's Party and was elected to the National Assembly in 1893. On December 27, 1896 he was appointed by Prime Minister Đorđe Simić as Minister of Justice in his second cabinet, to which he was a member until October 19, 1897. After he was envoy to the Kingdom of Romania between 1900 and 1901 , he was Minister for National Economy in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mihailo Vujić from April 3, 1901 to October 20, 1902 . He then acted between October 20, 1902 and November 20, 1902 as Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Petar Velimirović .

Milovanović was envoy to the Kingdom of Italy between 1903 and 1907 and took over the post of Foreign Minister in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Petar Velimirović on July 20, 1908. He also held this office in the subsequent second cabinet of Stojan Novaković (February 22, 1909 to October 24, 1909) and in the fourth cabinet of Nikola Pašić (October 24, 1909 to July 4, 1911).

On July 4, 1911, Milovanović took over the office of Prime Minister himself as the successor to Nikola Pašić and held this until his death on June 18, 1912. At the same time he kept the post of Foreign Minister from July 4, 1911 to June 18, 1912.

Publications

• Les Traités de garantie au XIXe siècle , Paris 1888
• Naša ustavna reforma , Belgrade 1888
• Srbi i Hrvati , Belgrade 1895
• Srbi i Bugari , Belgrade 1898
• Jedan ili dva doma , Belgrade 1901

Web links

• Short biography in rulers.org