Jovan Tomić
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Jovan Tomić (9 May 1869 in
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– 22 July 1932 in
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) was a
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historian, academic and the former director of the
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from 1903 to 1927.


Biography

Tomić was born in Nova Varoš in the Zlatibor District, which was at the time part of the Ottoman Empire. He attended high school in Kragujevac and determined early that his destiny was in historical research, education and record-keeping. He attended the
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, today's
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, from which he earned a bachelor's degree in 1890. Upon completion of his studies, he taught in
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and Kragujevac, between 1890 and 1894. From 1894 and 1896 he lived in France and Italy where he pursued further studies in library science and professional training as an educator. His experiences abroad were put to good use when he was a professor at the teachers' training college in
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and the First Belgrade Gymnasium. From 1903 to 1927 he was the director of the
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. During his time as director the First World War brought a lot of misfortune to the library. The bombing destroyed a part of its holdings, and the remaining collections were moved for safety to several different places in Belgrade,
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and
Kosovska Mitrovica Mitrovica (Albanian language, Albanian Definiteness, indefinite Albanian morphology#Nouns (declension), form: ''Mitrovicë''; sr-Cyrl, Митровица, Mitrovica), also referred to as Kosovska Mitrovica ( sr-Cyrl, Косовска Митр ...
. A part of the collections ended up in Sofia (Bulgaria), but was returned after the war. A lot of the library materials, manuscripts, books and newspapers disappeared. Thanks to Jovan Tomić's public activity, the reconstruction of the library holdings began during the war and was intensified after the war.


Selected works

Tomić has published 60 books, and more than 40 learned articles and dissertations, a lot of criticism, reports and polemics. He also worked on the publication of archive material. * ''O Arnautima u Staroj Srbiji i u sandžaku Novog Pazara'' (The Albanians in Old Serbia and in the Sandjak of Novi Pazar), Belgrade, 1913; * ''Pećki Patrijarh Jovan i pokret hrišćana na Balkansokom poluostrvu, 1592-1614'' (Patriarch Jovan of
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and the Christian Movement in the Balkan Peninsula, 1592-1614), Zemun, 1913; * ''Crna Gora za Morejskog rata, 1684-1699'' (Montenegro and the Morean War, 1684-1699), Belgrade, 1907; * ''Pitanje Careva Laza'' (The Question of Carev Laz), Belgrade, 1933; * ''Građa za istoriju Gornje Albanije'' (Records on the History of High Albania), Belgrade, 1905; * ''Rat na Kosovu i Staroj Srbiji 1912. godine'' (War in Kosovo and Old Serbia in 1912), Novi Sad, 1913; * ''Cetinje i Crna Gora''(Cetinje and Montenegro), Belgrade 1927. In his work 'Who is Djemo the Mountaineer' () Tomić claims that
Djemo the Mountaineer Djemo the Mountaineer ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Ђемо Брђанин, Đemo Brđanin) is a popular legendary hero of Serbian epic poetry who is depicted as enemy of Prince Marko, Kraljević Marko and brother of Musa Kesedžija. His figure might be based on ...
was from region of Brda which is a territory modern-day
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and Northern Albania. He thought that Musa Kesedžija is based on the supporter of Jegen Osman Pasha while Jegen Pasha himself has been transformed into Djemo the Mountaineer () in Serbian epic poetry.


References


External links


Biography on the website of SANU
1869 births 1932 deaths People from the Ottoman Empire 20th-century Serbian historians Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts {{Serbia-academic-bio-stub