Ivan Ivanić ( Bačko Gradište,

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, 24 April 1867 – Belgrade,

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, 31 January 1935) was a Serbian diplomat of the Kingdom of Serbia and author of numerous

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works about Serbia and the

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. He also wrote

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about the region of

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Biography

He began his diplomatic career as a secretary in the Serbian consulate in Priština. He later became

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and consul in Priština and Skopje ( Kosovo Vilayet). He was later appointed as consul in Bitola (then Monastir Vilayet). He participated in both public and secret Serbian activities to provide assistance to Macedonian rebels against the

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. He met his wife Delfa in

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, where she was a teacher between 1900 and 1903. She was one of the founders of the Circle of Serbian Sisters ( sr, Kolo Srpskih Sestara), an organization whose establishment was proposed by Ivan Ivanić together with

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. They were childless and the name of their stepdaughter was Ivanka. On 29 November 1912 he was appointed as the first governor of the

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, while his wife Delfa led the city hospital in

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. Besides his work as diplomat, Ivanić was editor of numerous magazines published in Serbian. In April 1887 he became the editor of ''"Sremac"''. Ivanić was one of two editors of the first issue of the magazine "''Vardar''". He also edited the magazine "Golub" which was published in 1905 in

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and distributed to Serbs in the Ottoman Empire. Ivanić added his personal notes in works about Kosovo, Macedonia and the Serbian Orthodox Church and those notes were subject of different opinions of later researchers.

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivanic, Ivan Serbian diplomats Serbian journalists Serbian non-fiction writers Serbian ethnographers 20th-century Serbian historians Serbian male short story writers Serbian short story writers 1867 births 1935 deaths Serbian travel writers Austro-Hungarian Serbs People from Bečej People from the Kingdom of Serbia Male non-fiction writers 19th-century Serbian historians