Slobodan Jovanovi

For the Serbian businessman, see Slobodan Jovanovi He had some inuence on political life in the Kingdom
(businessman). of Yugoslavia due to his well established authority in the
Warning: Page using Template:Infobox oceholder eld of law and history, but he entered directly political
with unknown parameter ethnicity (this message is life only in 1939 when the Serbian Cultural Club was es-
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He was a pro-Western politician and when a pro-Western
Slobodan Jovanovi (Serbian Cyrillic: military coup took place in Belgrade on March 27, 1941,
) (December 3, 1869, Novi Sad, Austria- a pro-Western, essentially pro-British government was in-
Hungary December 12, 1958, London, United King- stalled headed by General Duan Simovi. Jovanovi was
dom) was one of Serbia's most prolic jurists, historians, deputy Prime Minister in that government. The Third
sociologists, journalists and literary critics. He distin- Reich attacked the Kingdoms of Yugoslavia and Greece
guished himself with a characteristically clear and sharp on April 6, and soon defeated Yugoslav and Greek forces.
writing style later called the "Belgrade style. Jovanovic moved in mid April together with King Pe-
Liberal in his social and political views, he was perhaps ter II and other cabinet ministers to Jerusalem and he
Yugoslavias greatest authority on constitutional law; also reached London in July. He became prime minister of
a master of Serbian prose style, he was for nearly half a the Yugoslav government in exile during World War II on
century a leader of the Serbian intelligentsia. He gradu- January 11, 1942 and remained in that position till June
ated law in Geneva in 1890. In 1905, he was a professor 26, 1943. Tried in absence in Josip Broz Tito's commu-
at the University of Belgrades Law School until 1941. nist state together with general Draa Mihailovi, he was
He was also a politician while in exile in London during sentenced to 20 years in jail which he never served, as
World War II. well as the loss of political and civil rights for a period
of ten years, and conscation of all property and loss of
citizenship.
He spent his later years in exile in London (19451958).
1 Biography A memorial plaque in honour of Professor Slobodan
Yovanovitch. Serbian historian, literary critic, legal
scholar, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia may be found in
Slobodan Jovanovi was born at Novi Sad, then part London at 39b Queens Gate Gardens, Kensington.
of Austria-Hungary, on the 3rd of December 1869 to
Vladimir Jovanovi and his wife Jelena. He was report- After unocial rehabilitation in 1989, his collected works
edly the rst Serbian male to be named Slobodan (slo- were published in 1991. In Serbia, he is regarded as one
boda means freedom in Serbian), while his sister was of the most inuential political thinkers of the turn of the
named Pravda (Justice). He received an excellent edu- century. Leading Serbian journal Politika on the occasion
cation in Belgrade, Munich, Zurich, and Geneva, where of his 70th birthday concluded that his name has [1] been
he graduated with a law degree. From 1890 to 1892, carved as the highest peak of our culture up to now. In
he took post-graduate studies in constitutional law and the same issue four most prominent Serbian intellectuals
political science in Paris before entering the Serbian for- assessed highly his accomplishments as a historian, jurist,
eign service. In 1893 he was appointed political attach sociologist and writer.
with the Serbian mission to Istanbul, where he remained His analysis of the Karaorevi and Obrenovi rulers
for a couple years. It was at this time that he began to ranks among the clearest and most astute. In Serbia, he
write and have his articles on literary criticism published initiated discussion about previously little known subjects
in various publications throughout the land. He eventu- (such as the question of cultural patterns). He also dis-
ally left the diplomatic service in favour of academia and tinguished himself with literary criticism and essays on
literary pursuits. In 1897 he was appointed professor at topics ranging from art to culture and politics.
the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law. For more
Jovanovi joined the Serbian Royal Academy in 1908,
than four decades, Jovanovi taught at the law faculty
and was its President from 1928 to 1931. He was also a
gaining a reputation as an authority on constitutional law
correspondent member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sci-
and Serbian language and literature. He was Rector of
ence in Zagreb from 1927.
the University of Belgrade shortly before his retirement
in 1939. He was one of the most prominent intellectuals of his

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time. In his career, he was also a lawyer, historian, writer, , 1908

professor and rector at Belgrade University, and deputy 1910 / Polititke i pravne rasprave, Beograd 1908
prime minister and prime minister of the Royal Yugoslav 1910 [Political and Legal Considerations, Belgrade,
government-in-exile. 19081910, in two volumes].
His collected works were published in 17 volumes in ,
19391940. It contains the results of his unremitting , 1912 / Us-
labour as a writer, professor and politician for sixty years, tavobranitelji i njihova vlada, Srpska kraljevska
and throws considerable light on Balkan history of the akademija, Beograd 1912 [Constitutionalists
rst half of the 20th century, as well as on the author him- and their Government (Belgrade: Serbian Royal
self. Although his works were not ocially banned, any Academy, 1912).
new issue of his books was not permitted in communist
Yugoslavia until the late 1980s. Finally, a new edition of
his collected works was published in Belgrade in 12 vol-
umes in 1991. Since 2003 his portrait is shown on the
5000 dinar banknote, and his bust stands at the Faculty
of Law in Belgrade. Ocial rehabilitation occurred on
October 26, 2007 by the court in Belgrade. Since De-
cember 10, 2011, plateau in front of Faculty of Law in
Belgrade bears his name.[2]

Slobodan Jovanovi on a 5,000 Serbian dinar bill

2 Works

, 1897 / O suverenosti, , 1914 / Univer-

Beograd 1897 [On Sovereignty, Belgrade, 1897]. sitetsko pitanje, Beograd 1914 [University Question,
Belgrade, 1914].
, 1899 / O dvodom- , 1920 / Voi
nom sistemu, Beograd 1899 [On Bicameral System, francuske revolucije, Beograd 1920 [Leaders of the
Belgrade, 1899]. French Revolution, Belgrade, 1920].

, 1900 / Ve- , 1922 / O dravi, Beograd 1922

lika narodna skuptina, Beograd 1900 [Great Peo- [On State, Belgrade, 1922].
ples Assembly, Belgrade, 1900].
, 1923
/ Druga vlada Miloa i Mihaila, Beograd 1923
- .
[The Second Rule of Milosh and Michael, Belgrade,
, 1901 / Srpsko-bugarski rat.
1923].
Rasprava iz diplomatske istorije, Beograd 1901
[Serbo-Bulgarian War. A paper in diplomatic his- ,
tory], Belgrade 1901]. , 1924 / Ustavno pravo Kral-
jevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca, Beograd 1924
, 1903 / Svetotar [Constitutional Law of the Kingdom of Serbs,
Markovi, Beograd 1903 [Svetozar Markovic, Bel- Croats and Slovenes, Belgrade, 1924].
grade 1903].
, ,
, 1906 / 19261927 / Vlada Milana Obrenovia, Geca Kon,
Osnovi pravne teorije o dravi, Beograd 1906 [An In- Beograd 19261927 [The Rule of Milan Obren-
troducation to the Legal Theory on State, Belgrade, ovich (Belgrade: Geca Kon, 19261927), in two
1906]. volumes].
, ,
, 19291931. / Vlada Aleksandra Obren-
19071909 / Osnovi javnog prava Kral- ovia, Geca Kon, Beograd 19291931. [The Rule
jevine Srbije, Beograd 19071909 [An Introduction of Alexander Obrenovich (Belgrade: Geca Kon,
to the Public Law of the Kingdom of Serbia, 19291931, in two volumes].
Belgrade, 19071909, in two volumes].
, 1935
, 1907 / Makiaveli, Beograd / Iz istorije politikih doktrina, Beograd 1935 [From
1907. the History of Political Doctrines, Belgrade, 1935].
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, -, 1938 / Gledston, Dimitrije Djordjevic (1973). Historians in Poli-

Jugo-istok, Beograd 1938 [Slobodan Jovanovic, tics: Slobodan Jovanovic. Journal of Contempo-
Gladstone (Belgrade: Jugo-istok, 1938)]. rary History 8 (1): pp. 2140.

, 1939 / Ameriki Milan Miloevi (2007-11-01). Rehabilitacija Slo-

federalizam, Beograd 1939 [American Federalism, bodana Jovanovia (in Serbian). Vreme.
Belgrade, 1939].
Duan T. Batakovi (dir), Histoire du peuple serbe,
, , Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme 2005.
, 18151914, 1940
/ Primeri politike sociologije, Engleska, Francuska,
Nemaka 18151914, Beograd 1940 [Examples of 5 Further reading
Political Sociology: England, France and Germany,
18151914, Belgrade, 1940]. Milosavljevi Boris (2010). Liberal and conserva-
tive political thought in nineteenth-century Serbia
, , 1952 / O Vladimir Jovanovi and Slobodan Jovanovi". Bal-
totalitarizmu, Osloboenje, Pariz 1952 [On Totali- canica 41: 131153.
tarianism (Paris: Oslobodjenje, 1952].

,
6 External links
1964 / Jedan prilog za prouavanje srpskog na-
cionalnog karaktera, Vindzor Kanada 1964 [A Slobodan Jovanovi Fund
Contribution to the Study of the Serbian National
Character, Windsor /Canada/, 1964].

, 19411944,
1976 / Zapisi o problemima i ljudima,
19411944, London 1976 [Notes on Problems and
Individuals, 19411944, London, 1976)]

2.1 Papers in English

Slobodan Jovanovich, Tito and the Western World

(reprinted from The Eastern Quarterly), London,
1952, pp. 6.

Slobodan Jovanovich, On the New Machiavellism

(reprinted from The Eastern Quarterly), London,
1952, pp. 5.

3 References
[1] Sedamdeset godina zivota gospodina Slobodana Jo-
vanovica [Seventy years of the life of Mr. Slobodan Jo-
vanovic], Politika, December 4, 1939, p. 9.

[2] . (10 December 2011). Slobodan Jovanovi

sahranjen u otadbini. Politika. Retrieved 20 May 2012.

4 Sources
1 Politika, December 4, 1939, p. 9.

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